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The quantification of the complexity of networks is, today, a fundamental problem in the physics of complex systems. A possible roadmap to solve the problem is via extending key concepts of information theory to networks. In this paper we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Kartik Anand , Ginestra Bianconi

The electrical activity of external anal sphincter can be registered with surface electromyography. This signals are known to be highly complex and nonlinear. This work aims in characterisation of the information carried in the signals by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Paulina Trybek , Michal Nowakowski , Jerzy Salowka , Lukasz Machura

Human communication is commonly represented as a temporal social network, and evaluated in terms of its uniqueness. We propose a set of new entropy-based measures for human communication dynamics represented within the temporal social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Marcin Kulisiewicz , Przemysław Kazienko , Bolesław K. Szymański , Radosław Michalski

Networks of genetic expression can be modelled by hypergraphs with the additional structure that real coefficients are given to each vertex-edge incidence. The spectra, i.e. the multiset of the eigenvalues, of such hypergraphs, are known to…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-24 Raffaella Mulas , Michael J. Casey

Centrality is a key property of complex networks that influences the behavior of dynamical processes, like synchronization and epidemic spreading, and can bring important information about the organization of complex systems, like our brain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-24 Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues

It has been demonstrated that excitable media with a tree structure performed better than other network topologies, it is natural to consider neural networks defined on Cayley trees. The investigation of a symbolic space called tree-shift…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Jung-Chao Ban , Chih-Hung Chang , Nai-Zhu Huang

Entropy metrics (for example, permutation entropy) are nonlinear measures of irregularity in time series (one-dimensional data). Some of these entropy metrics can be generalised to data on periodic structures such as a grid or lattice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-22 John Stewart Fabila-Carrasco , Chao Tan , Javier Escudero

The metaphor of a potential epigenetic differentiation landscape broadly suggests that during differentiation a stem cell follows the steepest descending gradient toward a stable equilibrium state which represents the final cell type. It…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-22 K. Wiesner , J. Teles , M. Hartnor , C. Peterson

In this paper, we present a detailed framework to analyze the evolution of the random topology of a time-varying wireless network via the information theoretic notion of entropy rate. We consider a propagation channel varying over time with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Arta Cika , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon , Shahriar Etemadi Tajbakhsh

Homophily -- the tendency of individuals to interact with similar others -- shapes how networks form and function. Yet existing approaches typically collapse homophily to a single scale, either one parameter for the whole network or one per…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-16 Abbas K. Rizi , Riccardo Michielan , Clara Stegehuis , Mikko Kivelä

This article introduces a new class of models for multiple networks. The core idea is to parametrize a distribution on labelled graphs in terms of a Fr\'{e}chet mean graph (which depends on a user-specified choice of metric or graph…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-09 Simón Lunagómez , Sofia C. Olhede , Patrick J. Wolfe

Discriminating between correct and incorrect substrates is a core process in biology but how is energy apportioned between the conflicting demands of accuracy ($\mu$), speed ($\sigma$) and total entropy production rate ($P$)? Previous…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-18 Felix Wong , Ariel Amir , Jeremy Gunawardena

Measures of complex network analysis, such as vertex centrality, have the potential to unveil existing network patterns and behaviors. They contribute to the understanding of networks and their components by analyzing their structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Felipe Grando , Diego Noble , Luis C. Lamb

Generalized mutual entropy is defined for networks and applied for analysis of complex network structures. The method is tested for the case of computer simulated scale free networks, random networks, and their mixtures. The possible…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Gudkov , V. Montealegre

Entropy is a classical measure to quantify the amount of information or complexity of a system. Various entropy-based measures such as functional and spectral entropies have been proposed in brain network analysis. However, they are less…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-08 Hyekyoung Lee , Eunkyung Kim , Hyejin Kang , Youngmin Huh , Youngjo Lee , Seonhee Lim , Dong Soo Lee

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

The past few decades have seen great leaps in technologies to analyze cells and tissues. Omics methods in particular now allow us unprecedented access to their the molecular composition where the base-level resolution of transcripts and…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-20 Ashika-Sita Jayanthy

We propose a new method for assessing agents influence in network structures, which takes into consideration nodes attributes, individual and group influences of nodes, and the intensity of interactions. This approach helps us to identify…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-20 F. Aleskerov , N. Meshcheryakova , S. Shvydun

As network research becomes more sophisticated, it is more common than ever for researchers to find themselves not studying a single network but needing to analyze sets of networks. An important task when working with sets of networks is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-26 James P. Bagrow , Erik M. Bollt

We propose utilizing entropy as a diagnostic tool to distinguish between constant and dynamical dark energy models. Entropy, a measure of the system's disorder or information content, captures the complexity and evolution of the universe.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-16 Tanisha Joshi