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We propose an approximation for the first return time distribution of random walks on undirected networks. We combine a message-passing solution with a mean-field approximation, to account for the short- and long-term behaviours…

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Over the last few years, network science has proved to be useful in modeling a variety of complex systems, composed of a large number of interconnected units. The intricate pattern of interactions often allows the system to achieve complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-30 Jean-François de Kemmeter , Timoteo Carletti

We investigate the problem of disseminating broadcast messages in wireless networks with time-varying links from a percolation-based perspective. Using a model of wireless networks based on random geometric graphs with dynamic on-off links,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-26 Zhenning Kong , Edmund M. Yeh

Stationary probability distributions of one-dimensional random walks on lattices with aperiodic disorder are investigated. The pattern of the distribution is closely related to the diffusional behavior, which depends on the wandering…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hiroshi Miki

Time plays an essential role in the diffusion of information, influence and disease over networks. In many cases we only observe when a node copies information, makes a decision or becomes infected -- but the connectivity, transmission…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-05-05 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , David Balduzzi , Bernhard Schölkopf

Navigation process is studied on a variant of the Watts-Strogatz small world network model embedded on a square lattice. With probability $p$, each vertex sends out a long range link, and the probability of the other end of this link…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Jian-Zhen Chen , Wei Liu , Jian-Yang Zhu

We review the recent fast progress in statistical physics of evolving networks. Interest has focused mainly on the structural properties of random complex networks in communications, biology, social sciences and economics. A number of giant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

It is known that the stationary distribution of the random walk process is dependent on the structure of the network. This could provide us a solution of the network reconstruction. However, the stationary distribution of the random walk…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-17 Zhe He , Ming Li , Rui-Jie Xu , Bing-Hong Wang

An annealed version of the quenched mean-field model for epidemic spread is introduced and investigated analytically and assisted by numerical calculations. The interaction between individuals follows a prescription that is used to generate…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-22 K. M. Kim , M. O. Hase

In this study, the concept of small worlds is investigated in the context of large-scale wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Wireless networks are spatial graphs that are usually much more clustered than random networks and have much…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ahmed Helmy

In this study we have carried out computer simulations of random walks on Watts-Strogatz-type small world networks and measured the mean number of visited sites and the return probabilities. These quantities were found to obey scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jani Lahtinen , János Kertész , Kimmo Kaski

Adaptive networks are well-suited to perform decentralized information processing and optimization tasks and to model various types of self-organized and complex behavior encountered in nature. Adaptive networks consist of a collection of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Ali H. Sayed

We report numerical simulations of a strongly biased diffusion process on a one-dimensional substrate with directed shortcuts between randomly chosen sites, i.e. with a small-world-like structure. We find that, unlike many other dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Damian H. Zanette

Many social, biological, and economic systems can be approached by complex networks of interacting units. The behaviour of several models on small-world networks has recently been studied. These models are expected to capture the essential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alejandro D. Sanchez , Juan M. Lopez , Miguel A. Rodriguez

Graph-limit theory focuses on the convergence of sequences of graphs when the number of nodes becomes arbitrarily large. This framework defines a continuous version of graphs allowing for the study of dynamical systems on very large graphs,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Julien Petit , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

Small-world networks are the focus of recent interest because they appear to circumvent many of the limitations of either random networks or regular lattices as frameworks for the study of interaction networks of complex systems. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-08 Luis A. Nunes Amaral , Antonio Scala , Marc Barthelemy , H. Eugene Stanley

Diffusion describes the motion of microscopic entities from regions of high concentration to regions of low concentration. In multiplex networks, flows can occur both within and across layers, and super-diffusion, a regime where the time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-02 Giulia Cencetti , Federico Battiston

We use the recently introduced small-world networks (SWN) to model cross-linked polymers, as an extension of the linear Rouse-chain. We study the SWN-dynamics under the influence of external forces. Our focus is on the structurally and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Jespersen , I. M. Sokolov , A. Blumen

We theoretically study the transport properties of self-propelled particles on complex structures, such as motor proteins on filament networks. A general master equation formalism is developed to investigate the persistent motion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-19 M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi , Igor M. Sokolov , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

Localization phenomena permeate many branches of physics playing a fundamental role on dynamical processes evolving on heterogeneous networks. These localization analyses are frequently grounded, for example, on eigenvectors of adjacency or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-24 Diogo H. Silva , Silvio C. Ferreira