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One of the paramount challenges in neuroscience is to understand the dynamics of individual neurons and how they give rise to network dynamics when interconnected. Historically, researchers have resorted to graph theory, statistics, and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-08 Jean-Baptiste Bardin , Gard Spreemann , Kathryn Hess

This paper develops a mathematical framework to study signal networks, in which nodes can be active or inactive, and their activation or deactivation is driven by external signals and the states of the nodes to which they are connected via…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Bernd Heidergott , Frank den Hollander , Ines Lindner , Azadeh Parvaneh

Many decision-making algorithms draw inspiration from the inner workings of individual biological systems. However, it remains unclear whether collective behavior among biological species can also lead to solutions for computational tasks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-04 Niek Mooij , Ivan Kryven

Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the world wide web are best described as networks with complex topology. A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Albert-Laszlo Barabasi , Reka Albert

A major achievement in the study of complex networks is the observation that diverse systems, from sub-cellular biology to social networks, exhibit universal topological characteristics. Yet this universality does not naturally translate to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-29 Chittaranjan Hens , Uzi Harush , Reuven Cohen , Baruch Barzel

One of the most important concepts in biological network analysis is that of network motifs, which are patterns of interconnections that occur in a given network at a frequency higher than expected in a random network. In this work we are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Diego P Rubert , Eloi Araujo , Marco A Stefanes , Jens Stoye , Fábio V Martinez

Among all characteristics exhibited by natural and man-made networks the small-world phenomenon is surely the most relevant and popular. But despite its significance, a reliable and comparable quantification of the question `how small is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-27 Gorka Zamora-López , Romain Brasselet

Complex networks pervade various real-world systems, from the natural environment to human societies. The essence of these networks is in their ability to transition and evolve from microscopic disorder-where network topology and node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jingtao Ding , Chang Liu , Yu Zheng , Yunke Zhang , Zihan Yu , Ruikun Li , Hongyi Chen , Jinghua Piao , Huandong Wang , Jiazhen Liu , Yong Li

Optimal paths connecting randomly selected network nodes and fixed routers are studied analytically in the presence of non-linear overlap cost that penalizes congestion. Routing becomes increasingly more difficult as the number of selected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-15 Chi Ho Yeung , David Saad

An important feature of many complex systems, both natural and artificial, is the structure and organization of their interaction networks with interesting properties. Here we present a theory of self-organization by evolutionary adaptation…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Venkat Venkatasubramanian , Santhoji Katare , Priyan R. Patkar , Fangping Mu

Most complex systems can be captured by graphs or networks. Networks connect nodes (e.g.\ neurons) through edges (synapses), thus summarizing the system's structure. A popular way of interrogating graphs is community detection, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-23 Luis F Seoane

Topological landscape is introduced for networks with functions defined on the nodes. By extending the notion of gradient flows to the network setting, critical nodes of different indices are defined. This leads to a concise and…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-05-01 E. Weinan , Jianfeng Lu , Yuan Yao

Real-world networks are neither regular nor random, a fact elegantly explained by mechanisms such as the Watts-Strogatz or the Barabasi-Albert models, among others. Both mechanisms naturally create shortcuts and hubs, which while enhancing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-03 Ernesto Estrada , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Lucas Lacasa

In decentralized optimization, nodes cooperate to minimize an overall objective function that is the sum (or average) of per-node private objective functions. Algorithms interleave local computations with communication among all or a subset…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Michael G. Rabbat

Although most networks in nature exhibit complex topology the origins of such complexity remains unclear. We introduce a model of a growing network of interacting agents in which each new agent's membership to the network is determined by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-02 J. I. Perotti , O. V. Billoni , F. A. Tamarit , D. R. Chialvo , S. A. Cannas

Demand-aware communication networks are networks whose topology is optimized toward the traffic they need to serve. These networks have recently been enabled by novel optical communication technologies and are investigated intensively in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Maxim Buzdalov , Pavel Martynov , Sergey Pankratov , Vitaly Aksenov , Stefan Schmid

In these notes we study synchronizability of dynamical processes defined on complex networks as well as its interplay with network topology. Building from a recent work by Barahona and Pecora [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 054101 (2002)], we use a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca Donetti , Pablo I. Hurtado , Miguel A. Munoz

Multiplex networks are receiving increasing interests because they allow to model relationships between networked agents on several layers simultaneously. In this supplementary material for the paper "Navigability of interconnected networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-05-28 M. De Domenico , A. Sole , S. Gomez , A. Arenas

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised for modelling complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, gain much attention representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery is one of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Song Kim , Dahee Kim , Taejoon Han , Junghoon Kim , Hyun Ji Jeong , Jungeun Kim

Recent results from statistical physics show that large classes of complex networks, both man-made and of natural origin, are characterized by high clustering properties yet strikingly short path lengths between pairs of nodes. This class…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rui A. Costa , Joao Barros