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The concept of network served for a long time as a metaphor supporting a structural approach, i.e., an approach that puts the accent on the relations among the constituents of a given system, in a wide range of scientific fields, from biology to sociology, and spanning organizational levels from subcellular organization to social organization. In all those fields we can observe a shift from the use of the concept of network as a metaphor to a more substantial notion [12, 43, 82], which has led to what is now known as complex networks science.
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We would like to thank all those who have collaborated with us during the last several years in our journey exploring multilayer networks. The work presented here has benefited from the following funders: CNPq (grant 305940/2010-4), Fapesp (Grants 2013/26416-9, 2012/25219-2, and 2015/07463-1), the FPI program of the Government of Aragón, Spain, the Government of Aragón, Spain through a grant to the group FENOL, MINECO, and FEDER funds (grant FIS2014-55867-P), and the European Commission FET Projects Multiplex (grant 317532) and Plexmath (grant 317614).
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Cozzo, E., de Arruda, G.F., Rodrigues, F.A., Moreno, Y. (2018). Introduction. In: Multiplex Networks. SpringerBriefs in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92255-3_1
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