Part1. Network Structure.- Chapter1. An Empirical Study of the Effect of Noise Models on Centrality Metrics.- Chapter2. Emergence and Evolution of Hierarchical Structure in Complex Systems.- Chapter3. Evaluation of Cascading Infrastructure Failures and Optimal Recovery from a Network Science Perspective.- Part2. Network Dynamics.- Chapter4. Automatic Discovery of Families of Network Generative Processes.- Chapter5. Modeling User Dynamics in Collaboration Websites.- Chapter6. The Problem of Interaction Prediction in Link Streams.- Chapter7. The Network Source Location Problem in the Context of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks.- Part3. Theoretical Models and applications.- Chapter8. Network Representation Learning using Local Sharing and Distributed Graph Factorization (LSDGF).- Chapter9. The Anatomy of Reddit: An Overview of Academic Research.- Chapter10. Learning Information Dynamics in Social Media: A Temporal Point Process Perspective.