English
Related papers

Related papers: Average Path Length in Complex Networks: Patterns …

200 papers

Understanding the structures why links are formed is an important and prominent research topic. In this paper, we therefore consider the link prediction problem in face-to-face contact networks, and analyze the predictability of new and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Christoph Scholz , Martin Atzmueller , Gerd Stumme

The problem of link prediction, predicting if two nodes in a network have a connection between them, is a theoretical problem with numerous field-agnostic real-world applications. This paper investigates the efficacy of three classes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Vivian Feng

We study expanding circle maps interacting in a heterogeneous random network. Heterogeneity means that some nodes in the network are massively connected, while the remaining nodes are only poorly connected. We provide a probabilistic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Tiago Pereira , Sebastian van Strien , Jeroen S. W. Lamb

We study diffusion and consensus dynamics in a Network of Networks model. In this model, there is a collection of sub-networks, connected to one another using a small number of links. We consider a setting where the links between networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Yuhao Yi , Anirban Das , Stacy Patterson , Bassam Bamieh , Zhongzhi Zhang

As a fundamental problem in many different fields, link prediction aims to estimate the likelihood of an existing link between two nodes based on the observed information. Since this problem is related to many applications ranging from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-01 Hao Liao , An Zeng , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Link prediction is a common problem in network science that transects many disciplines. The goal is to forecast the appearance of new links or to find links missing in the network. Typical methods for link prediction use the topology of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Huda Nassar , Austin R. Benson , David F. Gleich

The connectivity of a network contains information about the relationships between nodes, which can denote interactions, associations, or dependencies. We show that this information can be analyzed by measuring the uncertainty (and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-23 Brennan Klein , Erik Hoel

In social networks, link prediction predicts missing links in current networks and new or dissolution links in future networks, is important for mining and analyzing the evolution of social networks. In the past decade, many works have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Peng Wang , Baowen Xu , Yurong Wu , Xiaoyu Zhou

We consider the problem of link prediction in networks whose edge structure may vary (sufficiently slowly) over time. This problem, with applications in many important areas including social networks, has two main variants: the first, known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Daniele Alpago , Mattia Zorzi , Augusto Ferrante

Real networks are finite metric spaces. Yet the geometry induced by shortest path distances in a network is definitely not its only geometry. Other forms of network geometry are the geometry of latent spaces underlying many networks, and…

Inference and prediction are fundamental to the study of complex systems, where network data are often incomplete, inaccurate or obtained indirectly. In this paper, we review recent advances in network sampling and comparison, as well as in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Francisco A. Rodrigues

We analyze complexity in spatial network ensembles through the lens of graph entropy. Mathematically, we model a spatial network as a soft random geometric graph, i.e., a graph with two sources of randomness, namely nodes located randomly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-02 Justin P. Coon , Carl P. Dettmann , Orestis Georgiou

Predicting missing links in complex networks requires algorithms that are able to explore statistical regularities in the existing data. Here we investigate the interplay between algorithm efficiency and network structures through the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Alexey Vlaskin , Eduardo G. Altmann

In the last decade it became apparent that a large number of the most interesting structures and phenomena of the world can be described by networks: separable elements, with connections (or interactions) between certain pairs of them.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-03 Laszlo Lovasz

In this work we propose a novel interpretation of residual networks showing that they can be seen as a collection of many paths of differing length. Moreover, residual networks seem to enable very deep networks by leveraging only the short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Andreas Veit , Michael Wilber , Serge Belongie

Random geometric networks consist of 1) a set of nodes embedded randomly in a bounded domain $\mathcal{V} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ and 2) links formed probabilistically according to a function of mutual Euclidean separation. We quantify how…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexander P. Kartun-Giles , Orestis Georgiou , Carl P. Dettmann

Inspired by empirical studies of networked systems such as the Internet, social networks, and biological networks, researchers have in recent years developed a variety of techniques and models to help us understand or predict the behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. E. J. Newman

Systematic relations between multiple objects that occur in various fields can be represented as networks. Real-world networks typically exhibit complex topologies whose structural properties are key factors in characterizing and further…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-09 Yoshihisa Tanaka , Ryosuke Kojima , Shoichi Ishida , Fumiyoshi Yamashita , Yasushi Okuno

The study of the topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, and today we have a fairly good understanding of the types and reoccurring characteristics of many different complex networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Trédan

Networks are a powerful tool to model the structure and dynamics of complex systems across scales. Direct connections between system components are often represented as edges, while paths and walks capture indirect interactions. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-15 Rohit Sahasrabuddhe , Renaud Lambiotte , Martin Rosvall