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This chapter discusses the interplay between structure and dynamics in complex networks. Given a particular network with an endowed dynamics, our goal is to find partitions aligned with the dynamical process acting on top of the network. We…

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Networks describe a variety of interacting complex systems in social science, biology and information technology. Usually the nodes of real networks are identified not only by their connections but also by some other characteristics.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Ginestra Bianconi , Paolo Pin , Matteo Marsili

We develop a geometric framework to study the structure and function of complex networks. We assume that hyperbolic geometry underlies these networks, and we show that with this assumption, heterogeneous degree distributions and strong…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-14 Dmitri Krioukov , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Maksim Kitsak , Amin Vahdat , Marian Boguna

For various purposes and, in particular, in the context of data compression, a graph can be examined at three levels. Its structure can be described as the unlabeled version of the graph; then the labeling of its structure can be added; and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Yi Heng Lim , Katia Papakonstantinopoulou , Wojtek Szpankowski

We investigate to what extent the degree sequence of a directed network constrains the number of driver nodes. We develop a pair of algorithms that take a directed degree sequence as input and aim to output a network with the maximum or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-24 Abdorasoul Ghasemi , Márton Pósfai , Raissa M. D'Souza

We interpret the subgraph centrality as the partition function of a network. The entropy, the internal energy and the Helmholtz free energy are defined for networks and molecular graphs on the basis of graph spectral theory. Various…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-05-27 Ernesto Estrada , Naomichi Hatano

Many natural and social systems develop complex networks, that are usually modelled as random graphs. The eigenvalue spectrum of these graphs provides information about their structural properties. While the semi-circle law is known to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Illes J. Farkas , Imre Derenyi , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi , Tamas Vicsek

The need to build a link between the structure of a complex network and the dynamical properties of the corresponding complex system (comprised of multiple low dimensional systems) has recently become apparent. Several attempts to tackle…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-18 Michael Small , Kevin Judd , Thomas Stemler

Realistic networks display not only a complex topological structure, but also a heterogeneous distribution of weights in the connection strengths. Here we study synchronization in weighted complex networks and show that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Changsong Zhou , Adilson E. Motter , Jurgen Kurths

We consider a Gaussian statistical model whose parameter space is given by the variances of random variables. Underlying this model we identify networks by interpreting random variables as sitting on vertices and their correlations as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Domenico Felice , Stefano Mancini , Marco Pettini

Empirical studies of graphs have contributed enormously to our understanding of complex systems. Known today as network science, what was originally a theoretical study of graphs has grown into a more scientific exploration of communities…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-01 Ryan E. Langendorf , Debra S. Goldberg

An information theoretic approach inspired by quantum statistical mechanics was recently proposed as a means to optimize network models and to assess their likelihood against synthetic and real-world networks. Importantly, this method does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Carlo Nicolini , Vladimir Vlasov , Angelo Bifone

In the last 15 years, statistical physics has been a very successful framework to model complex networks. On the theoretical side, this approach has brought novel insights into a variety of physical phenomena, such as self-organisation,…

Subgraph densities play a crucial role in network analysis, especially for the identification and interpretation of meaningful substructures in complex graphs. Localized subgraph densities, in particular, can provide valuable insights into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Connor Mattes , Esha Datta , Ali Pinar

Complex networks have been applied to model numerous interactive nonlinear systems in the real world. Knowledge about network topology is crucial for understanding the function, performance and evolution of complex systems. In the last few…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Jing Zhao , Lin Tao , Hong Yu , Jian-Hua Luo , Zhi-Wei Cao , Yi-Xue Li

Quantifying the complexity of large graphs requires measures that extend beyond predefined structural features and scale efficiently with graph size. This work adopts a generative perspective, modeling large networks as exchangeable graphs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Anda Skeja , Sofia C. Olhede

We present a statistical mechanics approach for the description of complex networks. We first define an energy and an entropy associated to a degree distribution which have a geometrical interpretation. Next we evaluate the distribution…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Ginestra Bianconi

This work studies the limitations of uniquely identifying the structure (i.e., topology) of a networked linear system from partial measurements of its nodal dynamics. In general, many networks can be consistent with these measurements; this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Jaidev Gill , Jing Shuang Li

Measure the similarity of the nodes in the complex networks have interested many researchers to explore it. In this paper, a new method which is based on the degree centrality and the Relative-entropy is proposed to measure the similarity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Qi Zhang , Meizhu Li , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

A classic measure of ecological stability describes the tendency of a community to return to equilibrium after small perturbation. While many advances show how the network structure of these communities severely constrains such tendencies,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-09 Gang Yan , Neo D. Martinez , Yang-Yu Liu