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In many real complex networks, the fractal and self-similarity properties have been found. The fractal dimension is a useful method to describe fractal property of complex networks. Fractal analysis is inadequate if only taking one fractal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-03 Daijun Wei , Xiaowu Chen , Cai Gao , Haixin Zhang , Bo Wei , Yong Deng

In this article, we present a novel box-covering algorithm for analyzing the fractal properties of complex networks. Unlike traditional algorithms that impose a predetermined box size, our approach assigns nodes to boxes identified by their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-23 Michal Lepek , Kordian Makulski , Agata Fronczak , Piotr Fronczak

Covering a network with the minimum possible number of boxes can reveal interesting features for the network structure, especially in terms of self-similar or fractal characteristics. Considerable attention has been recently devoted to this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Chaoming Song , Lazaros K. Gallos , Shlomo Havlin , Hernan A. Makse

The self-similarity of complex networks is typically investigated through computational algorithms the primary task of which is to cover the structure with a minimal number of boxes. Here we introduce a box-covering algorithm that not only…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Christian M. Schneider , Tobias A. Kesselring , Jose S. Andrade , Hans J. Herrmann

Analysis and modeling of networked objects are fundamental pieces of modern data mining. Most real-world networks, from biological to social ones, are known to have common structural properties. These properties allow us to model the growth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Takuya Akiba , Kenko Nakamura , Taro Takaguchi

With an increasing emphasis on network security, much more attention has been attracted to the vulnerability of complex networks. The multi-scale evaluation of vulnerability is widely used since it makes use of combined powers of the links'…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Li Gou , Bo Wei , Rehan Sadiq , Sankaran Mahadevan , Yong Deng

Complex networks have recently attracted much attention in diverse areas of science and technology. Many networks such as the WWW and biological networks are known to display spatial heterogeneity which can be characterized by their fractal…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Dan-Ling Wang , Zu-Guo Yu , Vo Anh

The fractal and self-similarity properties are revealed in many complex networks. In order to show the influence of different part in the complex networks to the information dimension, we have proposed a new information dimension based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Qi Zhang , Meizhu Li , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

Research on fractal networks is a dynamically growing field of network science. A central issue is to analyze fractality with the so-called box-covering method. As this problem is known to be NP-hard, a plethora of approximating algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Péter Tamás Kovács , Marcell Nagy , Roland Molontay

The fractal nature of complex networks has received a great deal of research interest in the last two decades. Similarly to geometric fractals, the fractality of networks can also be defined with the so-called box-covering method. A network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-25 Enikő Zakar-Polyák , Marcell Nagy , Roland Molontay

Over the past three decades, describing the reality surrounding us using the language of complex networks has become very useful and therefore popular. One of the most important features, especially of real networks, is their complexity,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-16 Rafal Rak , Ewa Rak

Dimensionality is one of the most important properties of complex physical systems. However, only recently this concept has been considered in the context of complex networks. In this paper we further develop the previously introduced…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-19 Filipi Nascimento Silva , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

It has been shown that many complex networks shared distinctive features, which differ in many ways from the random and the regular networks. Although these features capture important characteristics of complex networks, their applicability…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Chang-Yong Lee , Sunghwan Jung

Quantum spin networks overcome the challenges of traditional charge-based electronics by encoding the information into spin degrees of freedom. Although beneficial for transmitting information with minimal losses when compared to their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-03 Paul Bogdan , Edmond Jonckheere , Sophie Schirmer

We introduce appropriate definitions of dimensions in order to characterize the fractal properties of complex networks. We compute these dimensions in a hierarchically structured network of particular interest. In spite of the nontrivial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-23 Victor M. Eguiluz , Emilio Hernandez-Garcia , Oreste Piro , Konstantin Klemm

The fractal dimension provides a statistical index of object complexity by studying how the pattern changes with the measuring scale. Although useful in several classification tasks, the fractal dimension is under-explored in deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Julia El Zini , Bassel Musharrafieh , Mariette Awad

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) uses insights from topology to create representations of data able to capture global and local geometric and topological properties. Its methods have successfully been used to develop estimations of fractal…

A random sequential box-covering algorithm recently introduced to measure the fractal dimension in scale-free networks is investigated. The algorithm contains Monte Carlo sequential steps of choosing the position of the center of each box,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-29 J. S. Kim , K. -I. Goh , B. Kahng , D. Kim

Recently, self-similarity of complex networks have attracted much attention. Fractal dimension of complex network is an open issue. Hub repulsion plays an important role in fractal topologies. This paper models the repulsion among the nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-03 Haixin Zhang , Daijun Wei , Yong Hu , Xin Lan , Yong Deng

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
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