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\section{Introduction}  In the last few years, a spectre has been haunting our academic and popular culture — the spectre of networks. Throughout social as well as natural sciences, more and more phenomena have come to be conceived as networks. Telecommunication networks, neural networks, social networks, epigenetic networks, ecological networks, value networks, the very fabric of our existence seems to be made of lines and points. More recently, the interest for graphs overflowed to popular culture and networks started to appear in art, graphics, advertizing, even furniture ADD OTHER EXEMPLES.  Our growing fascination for networks is not unjustified. Networks are powerful conceptual tools, encapsulating in a single object multiple affordances for the computation (networks as graphs), visualization (networks as maps) and manipulation of data (networks as interfaces).