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We propose a natural model of evolving weighted networks in which new links are not necessarily connected to new nodes. The model allows a newly added link to connect directly two nodes already present in the network. This is plausible in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-18 Shinji Tanimoto

Understanding the causes and consequences of, and devising countermeasures to, global warming is a profoundly complex problem. Network representations are sometimes the only way forward, and sometimes able to reduce the complexity of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-30 Petter Holme , Juan C. Rocha

Networks are pervasive in the real world. Nature, society, economy, and technology are supported by ostensibly different networks that in fact share an amazing number of interesting structural properties. Network thinking exploded in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-03-19 Massimo Franceschet

This study presents the computational modeling and simulation of silver nanoparticle networks (NPNs), which, in the realm of neuromorphic computation, suggest to be a promising candidate for nontraditional computation methods. The modeling…

Designing an operational architecture for the Quantum Internet is challenging in light of both fundamental limits imposed by physics laws and technological constraints. Here, we propose a method to abstract away most of the quantum-specific…

Network meta-analysis (NMA) is a technique used in medical statistics to combine evidence from multiple medical trials. NMA defines an inference and information processing problem on a network of treatment options and trials connecting the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-30 Annabel L. Davies , Tobias Galla

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,…

The interaction of neural networks with physical equations offers a wide range of applications. We provide a method which enables a neural network to transform objects subject to given physical constraints. Therefore an U-Net architecture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Lukas Harsch , Johannes Burgbacher , Stefan Riedelbauch

Metasurfaces have emerged as transformative electromagnetic structures for wireless communications, enabling the real-time control over wave propagation, yielding potential for improved data rates, privacy, energy efficiency and even…

Adaptive networks are a novel class of dynamical networks whose topologies and states coevolve. Many real-world complex systems can be modeled as adaptive networks, including social networks, transportation networks, neural networks and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Hiroki Sayama , Irene Pestov , Jeffrey Schmidt , Benjamin James Bush , Chun Wong , Junichi Yamanoi , Thilo Gross

This book is devoted to an informal discussion of patterns constructed for treating physical problems. Such patterns, when sufficiently formalized, are usually referred as "models", and tents to be applied not only in physics, but conquer…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Sergej Pankratow

Networks are powerful tools for modeling interactions in complex systems. While traditional networks use scalar edge weights, many real-world systems involve multidimensional interactions. For example, in social networks, individuals often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yu Tian , Sadamori Kojaku , Hiroki Sayama , Renaud Lambiotte

This paper presents a versatile model for generating fractal complex networks that closely mirror the properties of real-world systems. By combining features of reverse renormalization and evolving network models, the proposed approach…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-23 Kordian Makulski , Mateusz Samsel , Michal Lepek , Agata Fronczak , Piotr Fronczak

Recent progress in applying complex network theory to problems in quantum information has resulted in a beneficial crossover. Complex network methods have successfully been applied to transport and entanglement models while information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jacob Biamonte , Mauro Faccin , Manlio De Domenico

Prediction and control of the dynamics of complex networks is a central problem in network science. Structural and dynamical similarities of different real networks suggest that some universal laws might accurately describe the dynamics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-28 Dmitri Krioukov , Maksim Kitsak , Robert S. Sinkovits , David Rideout , David Meyer , Marian Boguna

What is a complex network? How do we characterize complex networks? Which systems can be studied from a network approach? In this text, we motivate the use of complex networks to study and understand a broad panoply of systems, ranging from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-11-27 Pedro G. Lind

Many real-world complex systems are best modeled by multiplex networks of interacting network layers. The multiplex network study is one of the newest and hottest themes in the statistical physics of complex networks. Pioneering studies…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-10-31 Kyu-Min Lee , Byungjoon Min , Kwang-Il Goh

The question addressed is whether magnetic materials based on physical small world networks are possible. Physical constraints, such as uniform bond length and embedding in three dimensions, are the new features added to make small world…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Novotny , X. Zhang , J. Yancey , T. Dubreus , M. L. Cook , S. G. Gill , I. T. Norwood , A. M. Novotny

Starting from the working hypothesis that both physics and the corresponding mathematics have to be described by means of discrete concepts on the Planck scale, one of the many problems one has to face in this enterprise is to find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Manfred Requardt

Reasoning about objects, relations, and physics is central to human intelligence, and a key goal of artificial intelligence. Here we introduce the interaction network, a model which can reason about how objects in complex systems interact,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Peter W. Battaglia , Razvan Pascanu , Matthew Lai , Danilo Rezende , Koray Kavukcuoglu