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The structure of the network can be described by motifs, which are subgraphs that often repeat themselves. In order to understand the structure of network motifs, it is of great importance to study subgraphs from the perspective of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Ruize Gao , Ying Zhao

Over the last two decades, network theory has shown to be a fruitful paradigm in understanding the organization and functioning of real-world complex systems. One technique helpful to this endeavor is identifying functionally influential…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-24 Francesco Picciolo , Franco Ruzzenenti , Petter Holme , Rossana Mastrandrea

Complex networks have been characterised by their specific connectivity patterns (network motifs), but their building blocks can also be identified and described by node-motifs---a combination of local network features. One technique to…

Analyzing and characterizing the differences between networks is a fundamental and challenging problem in network science. Previously, most network comparison methods that rely on topological properties have been restricted to measuring…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-15 Chenwei Xie , Qiao Ke , Haoyu Chen , Chuang Liu , Xiu-Xiu Zhan

The identification and counting of small graph patterns, called network motifs, is a fundamental primitive in the analysis of networks, with application in various domains, from social networks to neuroscience. Several techniques have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ilie Sarpe , Fabio Vandin

Network motifs are often called the building blocks of networks. Analysis of motifs is found to be an indispensable tool for understanding local network structure, in contrast to measures based on node degree distribution and its functions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-23 Asim Kumer Dey , Yulia R. Gel , H. Vincent Poor

Network motifs are recurrent, small-scale patterns of interactions observed frequently in a system. They shed light on the interplay between the topology and the dynamics of complex networks across various domains. In this work, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Federico Battiston , Alberto Montresor

The mining of graphs in terms of their local substructure is a well-established methodology to analyze networks. It was hypothesized that motifs - subgraph patterns which appear significantly more often than expected at random - play a key…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Marco Winkler , Joerg Reichardt

Network structures are extremely important to the study of political science. Much of the data in its subfields are naturally represented as networks. This includes trade, diplomatic and conflict relationships. The social structure of…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-05-05 Drew Conway

The identification of motifs--subgraphs that appear significantly more often in a particular network than in an ensemble of randomized networks--has become a ubiquitous method for uncovering potentially important subunits within networks…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-08-27 Reid Ginoza , Andrew Mugler

Temporal networks are commonly used to represent systems where connections between elements are active only for restricted periods of time, such as networks of telecommunication, neural signal processing, biochemical reactions and human…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-11-15 Lauri Kovanen , Márton Karsai , Kimmo Kaski , János Kertész , Jari Saramäki

Motif counting plays a crucial role in understanding the structural properties of networks. By computing motif frequencies, researchers can draw key insights into the structural properties of the underlying network. As networks become…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Haozhe Yin , Kai Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Yizhang He , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

In the age of social computing, finding interesting network patterns or motifs is significant and critical for various areas such as decision intelligence, intrusion detection, medical diagnosis, social network analysis, fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Shuo Yu , Feng Xia , Yuchen Sun , Tao Tang , Xiaoran Yan , Ivan Lee

The observation that some subgraphs, called motifs, appear more often in real networks than in their randomized counterparts has attracted much attention in the scientific community. In the prevalent approach the detection of motifs is…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-08-28 Anatol E. Wegner

Characterizing motif (i.e., locally connected subgraph patterns) statistics is important for understanding complex networks such as online social networks and communication networks. Previous work made the strong assumption that the graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley

Complex networks evolve and vary their structure as time goes by. In particular, the links in those networks have both a sign and a directionality. To understand their structural principles, we measure the network motifs, which are patterns…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-28 Youngjai Park , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

We introduce a method to convert an ensemble of sequences of symbols into a weighted directed network whose nodes are motifs, while the directed links and their weights are defined from statistically significant co-occurences of two motifs…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-10-27 Roberta Sinatra , Daniele Condorelli , Vito Latora

In the last decade, network science has shed new light both on the structural (anatomical) and on the functional (correlations in the activity) connectivity among the different areas of the human brain. The analysis of brain networks has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-18 Federico Battiston , Vincenzo Nicosia , Mario Chavez , Vito Latora

Complex networks can often be decomposed into less complex sub-networks whose structures can give hints about the functional organization of the network as a whole. However, these structural motifs can only tell one part of the functional…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-20 Jifeng Qian , Arend Hintze , Christoph Adami

Frequent and structurally related subgraphs, also known as network motifs, are valuable features of many graph datasets. However, the high computational complexity of identifying motif sets in arbitrary datasets (motif mining) has limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Carlos Oliver , Dexiong Chen , Vincent Mallet , Pericles Philippopoulos , Karsten Borgwardt