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From footpaths to flight routes, human mobility networks facilitate the spread of communicable diseases. Control and elimination efforts depend on characterizing these networks in terms of connections and flux rates of individuals between…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-29 Kyle B Gustafson , Basil S. Bayati , Philip A. Eckhoff

The amount of data that is being gathered about cities is increasing in size and specificity. However, despite this wealth of information, we still have little understanding of what really drives the processes behind urbanisation. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-30 Rémi Louf

In this study, we investigate the complexity of two-phase flow (air/water) in a heterogeneous soil sample by using complex network theory, where the supposed porous media is non-deformable media, under the time-dependent gas pressure. Based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Hamed. O. Ghaffari , Mamdou Fall , Erman. Evgin

Percolation theory has been largely used in the study of structural properties of complex networks such as the robustness, with remarkable results. Nevertheless, a purely topological description is not sufficient for a correct…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Luca Dall'Asta

We propose a growing model which interpolates between one-dimensional regular lattice and small-world networks. The model undergoes an interesting phase transition from large to small world. We investigate the structural properties by both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-24 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Zhen Shen

The spring network model constitutes the backbone in the representations of a host of physical systems. In this work, we report the disturbance-driven microscopic dynamics of an isolated, closed spring network of spherical topology in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-26 Zhenwei Yao

Performance of standard processes over large distributed networks typically scales with the size of the network. For example, in planar topologies where nodes communicate with their natural neighbors, the scaling factor is $O(n)$, where $n$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Abhinav Mishra

We propose a generalization of small world networks, in which the reconnection of links is governed by a function that depends on the distance between the elements to be linked. An adequate choice of this function lets us control the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Marcelo Kuperman , Guillermo Abramson

In this Letter we investigate networks that have been optimized to realize a trade-off between enhanced synchronization and cost of wire to connect the nodes in space. Analyzing the evolved arrangement of nodes in space and their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Brede

Dynamical processes taking place on networks have received much attention in recent years, especially on various models of random graphs (including small world and scale free networks). They model a variety of phenomena, including the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonathan Rowe , Boris Mitavskiy

A heterogeneous continuous time random walk is an analytical formalism for studying and modeling diffusion processes in heterogeneous structures on microscopic and macroscopic scales. In this paper we study both analytically and numerically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-05 Liubov Tupikina , Denis S. Grebenkov

The spreading (propagation) of diseases, viruses, and disasters such as power blackout through a huge-scale and complex network is one of the most concerned issues today. In this paper, we study the control of such spreading in a nonlinear…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiang Li , Guanrong Chen

To comprehend the hierarchical organization of large integrated systems, we introduce the hierarchical map equation, which reveals multilevel structures in networks. In this information-theoretic approach, we exploit the duality between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-04-12 M. Rosvall , C. T. Bergstrom

The motion of contaminant particles through complex environments such as fractured rocks or porous sediments is often characterized by anomalous diffusion: the spread of the transported quantity is found to grow sublinearly in time due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Marseguerra , A. Zoia

Network architecture design is very important for the optimization of industrial networks. The type of network architecture can be divided into small-scale network and large-scale network according to its scale. Graph theory is an efficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Chao Dong , Xiaoxiong Xiong , Qiulin Xue , Zhengzhen Zhang , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Understanding how pore structure influences flow and transport behaviour in granular materials is essential for addressing a wide range of geotechnical, hydraulic, and environmental challenges. These processes are largely shaped by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Jie Qi , Wenbin Fei , Guillermo A. Narsilio

We study navigation with limited information in networks and demonstrate that many real-world networks have a structure which can be described as favoring communication at short distance at the cost of constraining communication at long…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Rosvall , P. Minnhagen , K. Sneppen

Models describing transport and diffusion processes occurring along the edges of a graph and interlinked by its vertices have been recently receiving a considerable attention. In this paper we generalize such models and consider a network…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Jacek Banasiak , Aleksandra Falkiewicz , Proscovia Namayanja

The study of complex systems in nature is essential to understand the interactions between different elements and how they influence one another. Complex network theory is a powerful tool that helps us to analyze these interactions and gain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Aurelienne A. S. Jorge , Douglas Uba , Alex A. Fernandes , Izabelly C. Costa , Leonardo B. L. Santos

Can we employ one neural model to efficiently dismantle many complex yet unique networks? This article provides an affirmative answer. Diverse real-world systems can be abstracted as complex networks each consisting of many functional nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Jiazheng Zhang , Bang Wang