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The degree distribution is an important characteristic of complex networks. In many applications, quantification of degree distribution in the form of a fixed-length feature vector is a necessary step. On the other hand, we often need to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Sadegh Aliakbary , Jafar Habibi , Ali Movaghar

We present an overview of a theory of complex dimensions of self-similar fractal strings, and compare this theory to the theory of varieties over a finite field from the geometric and the dynamical point of view. Then we combine the several…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michel L. Lapidus , Machiel van Frankenhuijsen

How to evaluate the importance of nodes is essential in research of complex network. There are many methods proposed for solving this problem, but they still have room to be improved. In this paper, a new approach called local volume…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Hanwen Li , Qiuyan Shang , Fangzheng Duan , Yong Deng

We propose a novel measure to assess the presence of meso-scale structures in complex networks. This measure is based on the identification of regular patterns in the adjacency matrix of the network, and on the calculation of the quantity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Massimiliano Zanin , Pedro A. Sousa , Ernestina Menasalvas

Neural network models have recently demonstrated impressive prediction performance in complex systems where chaos and unpredictability appear. In spite of the research efforts carried out on predicting future trajectories or improving their…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-30 David Valle , Alexandre Wagemakers , Alvar Daza , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

Fractals represent one of the fundamental manifestations of complexity, and fractal networks serve as tools for characterizing and investigating the fractal structures and properties of large-scale systems. Higher-order networks have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Lin Qi , Jiaxin Zhang

An algorithm for calculating generalized fractal dimension of a time series using the general information function is presented. The algorithm is based on a strings sort technique and requires $O(N \log_2 N)$ computations. A rough estimate…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Yosef Ashkenazy

Applications of Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) modeling are becoming increasingly prevalent in engineering analyses involving fractured rock masses. For example, kinematic evaluations of slope or underground excavation stability and the…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-11-16 Younes Fadakar Alghalandis , Davide Elmo , Erik Eberhardt

The class of Koch fractals is one of the most interesting families of fractals, and the study of complex networks is a central issue in the scientific community. In this paper, inspired by the famous Koch fractals, we propose a mapping…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-03 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuyang Gao , Lichao Chen , Shuigeng Zhou , Hongjuan Zhang , Jihong Guan

A diffusion process on complex networks is introduced in order to uncover their large scale topological structures. This is achieved by focusing on the slowest decaying diffusive modes of the network. The proposed procedure is applied to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ingve Simonsen , Kasper Astrup Eriksen , Sergei Maslov , Kim Sneppen

In this paper we introduce new models of complex weighted networks sharing several properties with fractal sets: the deterministic non-homogeneous weighted fractal networks and the stochastic weighted fractal networks. Networks of both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-02 Timoteo Carletti

There is an abundance of literature on complex networks describing a variety of relationships among units in social, biological, and technological systems. Such networks, consisting of interconnected nodes, are often self-organized,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-08-18 Paul J. Laurienti , Karen E. Joyce , Qawi K. Telesford , Jonathan H. Burdette , Satoru Hayasaka

Developing a robust generalization measure for the performance of machine learning models is an important and challenging task. A lot of recent research in the area focuses on the model decision boundary when predicting generalization. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Valeri Alexiev

This work presents a new Visual Basic 6.0 application for estimating the fractal dimension of images, based on an optimized version of the box-counting algorithm. Following the attempt to separate the real information from noise, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 I. V. Grossu , C. Besliu , M. V. Rusu , Al. Jipa , C. C. Bordeianu , D. Felea , E. Stan , T. Esanu

One important issue implied by the finite nature of real-world networks regards the identification of their more external (border) and internal nodes. The present work proposes a formal and objective definition of these properties, founded…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Bruno A. N. Travencolo , Matheus P. Viana , Luciano da F. Costa

Data classification techniques partition the data or feature space into smaller sub-spaces, each corresponding to a specific class. To classify into subspaces, physical features e.g., distance and distributions are utilized. This approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Josimar Chire , Khalid Mahmood , Zhao Liang

Perfect fractals are mathematical objects that, because they are generated by recursive processes, have self-similarity and infinite complexity. In particular, they also have a fractional dimension. Although several proposals for the study…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-04-04 P. V. S. Souza , R. L. Alves , W. F. Balthazar

A complex network approach on a rough fracture is developed. In this manner, some hidden metric spaces (similarity measurements) between apertures profiles are set up and a general evolutionary network in two directions (in parallel and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-05-12 H. O. Ghaffari , M. Sharifzadeh , M. Fall , E. Evgin

We propose that the recently defined persistent homology dimensions are a practical tool for fractal dimension estimation of point samples. We implement an algorithm to estimate the persistent homology dimension, and compare its performance…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Jonathan Jaquette , Benjamin Schweinhart

This paper surveys work on the relation between fractal dimensions and algorithmic information theory over the past thirty years. It covers the basic development of prefix-free Kolmogorov complexity from an information theoretic point of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Jan Reimann