Institut Institut für Physik und Astronomie Arbeitsgruppe Lehrstuhl Nichtlineare Dynamik Nonlinear dynamics in complex networks and modeling human dynamics Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades "doctor rerum naturalium" (Dr. rer. nat.) in der Wissenschaftsdisziplin " Physik " eingereicht an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam von Ye Wu Potsdam, 08.06.2010 Published online at the Institutional Repository of the University of Potsdam: URL http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4735/ URN urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-4735 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-47358 Nonlinear dynamics in complex networks and modeling human dynamics Ye Wu Institute of Physics and Astrophysics, University Potsdam Abstract The availability of large data sets has allowed researchers to uncover complex properties in complex systems, such as complex networks and human dynamics. A vast number of systems, from the Internet to the brain, power grids, ecosystems, can be represented as large complex networks. Dynamics on and of complex networks has attracted more and more researchers’ interest.