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In network science complex systems are represented as a mathematical graphs consisting of a set of nodes representing the components and a set of edges representing their interactions. The framework of networks has led to significant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-07 Alexandre Bovet , Hernán A. Makse

A distributed classification paradigm known as collaborative tagging has been widely adopted in new Web applications designed to manage and share online resources. Users of these applications organize resources (Web pages, digital…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-12-04 Ciro Cattuto , Andrea Baldassarri , Vito D. P. Servedio , Vittorio Loreto

Detecting community structure in social networks is a fundamental problem empowering us to identify groups of actors with similar interests. There have been extensive works focusing on finding communities in static networks, however, in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Saeed Haji Seyed Javadi , Pedram Gharani , Shahram Khadivi

With the emerging of new networks, such as wireless sensor networks, vehicle networks, P2P networks, cloud computing, mobile Internet, or social networks, the network dynamics and complexity expands from system design, hardware, software,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Jianguo Ding , Pascal Bouvry

Community finding algorithms for networks have recently been extended to dynamic data. Most of these recent methods aim at exhibiting community partitions from successive graph snapshots and thereafter connecting or smoothing these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Bivas Mitra , Lionel Tabourier , Camille Roth

Network representations can help reveal the behavior of complex systems. Useful information can be derived from the network properties and invariants, such as components, clusters or cliques, as well as from their changes over time. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Luis Ramada Pereira , Rui J. Lopes , Jorge Louçã

We introduce a model for the emergence of innovations, in which cognitive processes are described as random walks on the network of links among ideas or concepts, and an innovation corresponds to the first visit of a node. The transition…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-25 Iacopo Iacopini , Staša Milojević , Vito Latora

Complex networks serve as abstract models for understanding real-world complex systems and provide frameworks for studying structured dynamical systems. This article addresses limitations in current studies on the exploration of individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Bin Pi , Liang-Jian Deng , Minyu Feng , Matjaž Perc , Jürgen Kurths

We propose a model of emergence of cooperation in evolutionary games that high- lights the role of network formation and effect of network structure. In line with empirical data, the model proposes a mechanism that explains the persistence…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-12-14 David Chavalarias

Many real-world processes evolve in cascades over complex networks, whose topologies are often unobservable and change over time. However, the so-termed adoption times when blogs mention popular news items, individuals in a community catch…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-30 Brian Baingana , Gonzalo Mateos , Georgios B. Giannakis

For decades, complex networks, such as social networks, biological networks, chemical networks, technological networks, have been used to study the evolution and dynamics of different kinds of complex systems. These complex systems can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Akrati Saxena

The study of time-varying (dynamic) networks (graphs) is of fundamental importance for computer network analytics. Several methods have been proposed to detect the effect of significant structural changes in a time series of graphs. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Peter Wills , Francois G. Meyer

Temporal networks have gained significant prominence in the past decade for modelling dynamic interactions within complex systems. A key challenge in this domain is Temporal Link Prediction (TLP), which aims to forecast future connections…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiafeng Xiong , Ahmad Zareie , Rizos Sakellariou

Weighted networks capture the structure of complex systems where interaction strength is meaningful. This information is essential to a large number of processes, such as threshold dynamics, where link weights reflect the amount of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-28 Samuel Unicomb , Gerardo Iñiguez , Márton Karsai

As one of the main subjects of investigation in data science, network science has been demonstrated a wide range of applications to real-world networks analysis and modeling. For example, the pervasive presence of structural or topological…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Felipe S. Abrahão , Klaus Wehmuth , Artur Ziviani

The interactions between individuals play a pivotal role in shaping the structure and dynamics of social systems. Complex network models have proven invaluable in uncovering the underlying mechanisms that govern the formation and evolution…

There is growing recognition that the network structures arising from interactions between different entities in physical, social and biological systems fundamentally alter the evolutionary outcomes. Previous paradigm exploring evolutionary…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-08 Yao Meng , Sean P. Cornelius , Yang-Yu Liu , Aming Li

Most instruments - formalisms, concepts, and metrics - for social networks analysis fail to capture their dynamics. Typical systems exhibit different scales of dynamics, ranging from the fine-grain dynamics of interactions (which recently…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-04 Nicola Santoro , Walter Quattrociocchi , Paola Flocchini , Arnaud Casteigts , Frederic Amblard

The animation of network visualizations poses technical and theoretical challenges. Rather stable patterns are required before the mental map enables a user to make inferences over time. In order to enhance stability, we developed an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-09-29 Loet Leydesdorff , Thomas Schank , Andrea Scharnhorst , Wouter De Nooy

Algorithms for search of communities in networks usually consist discrete variations of links. Here we discuss a flow method, driven by a set of differential equations. Two examples are demonstrated in detail. First is a partition of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-19 Przemyslaw Gawronski , Malgorzata J. Krawczyk , Krzysztof Kulakowski