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The statistical tools of Complex Network Analysis are of great use to understand salient properties of complex systems, may these be natural or pertaining human engineered infrastructures. One of these that is receiving growing attention…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-19 Giuliano Andrea Pagani , Marco Aiello

The controllability of a network is a theoretical problem of relevance in a variety of contexts ranging from financial markets to the brain. Until now, network controllability has been characterized only on isolated networks, while the vast…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 Giulia Menichetti , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi

Community detection is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field, but when it comes to analyzing networks with multiple types of interactions, referred to as multilayer networks, there is still a lot of untapped potential. Despite the wide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Randa Boukabene , Fatima Benbouzid Si Tayeb

Many real-world systems can be modeled as interconnected multilayer networks, namely a set of networks interacting with each other. Here we present a perturbative approach to study the properties of a general class of interconnected…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-10 Giacomo Rapisardi , Alex Arenas , Guido Caldarelli , Giulio Cimini

We propose new direction to understanding evolutionary dynamics of complex networks using two different types of collaboration networks: academic collaboration networks; and, disaster collaboration networks. The results show that academic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-29 Alireza Abbasi , Liaquat Hossain , Rolf T Wigand

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sebastián Brzovic , Cristóbal Rojas , Andrés Abeliuk

In this article we discuss visualisation strategies for multiplex networks. Since Moreno's early works on network analysis, visualisation has been one of the main ways to understand networks thanks to its ability to summarise a complex…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Matteo Magnani , Luca Rossi

Complex networks are universal, arising in fields as disparate as sociology, physics, and biology. In the past decade, extensive research into the properties and behaviors of complex systems has uncovered surprising commonalities among the…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-26 Claire Christensen , Reka Albert

One of the main tasks of post-genomic informatics is to systematically investigate all molecules and their interactions within a living cell so as to understand how these molecules and the interactions between them relate to the function of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jing Zhao , Hong Yu , Jianhua Luo , Z. W. Cao , Yi-Xue Li

Complex systems have been widely studied by social and natural scientists in terms of their dynamics and their structure. Scholars of cities and urban planning have incorporated complexity theories from qualitative and quantitative…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-03 Geoff Boeing

We explore the resiliency and robustness of systems while viewing them as complex, multi-genre networks. The term "complex, multi-genre networks" refers to networks that combine several distinct genres - networks of physical resources,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Alexander Kott , Tarek Abdelzaher

Understanding the origins of complexity is a fundamental challenge with implications for biological and technological systems. Network theory emerges as a powerful tool to model complex systems. Networks are an intuitive framework to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-22 Blai Vidiella , Salva Duran-Nebreda , Sergi Valverde

A good deal of current research in complex networks involves the characterization and/or classification of the topological properties of given structures, which has motivated several respective measurements. This letter proposes a framework…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-26 Cesar H. Comin , Filipi N. Silva , Luciano da F. Costa

Recent advances in the study of networked systems have highlighted that our interconnected world is composed of networks that are coupled to each other through different "layers" that each represent one of many possible subsystems or types…

Many biological and man-made networked systems are characterized by the simultaneous presence of different sub-networks organized in separate layers, with links and nodes of qualitatively different types. While during the past few years…

While "complexity science" has achieved significant successes in several interdisciplinary fields such as economics and biology, it is only a very recent observation that legal systems -- from the way legal texts are drafted and connected…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-08 Pierpaolo Vivo , Daniel M. Katz , J. B. Ruhl

Most real-world complex systems can be modelled by coupled networks with multiple layers. How and to what extent the pattern of couplings between network layers may influence the interlaced structure and function of coupled networks are not…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-10-26 Won-kuk Cho , K. -I. Goh , I. -M. Kim

In complex systems, the network of interactions we observe between system's components is the aggregate of the interactions that occur through different mechanisms or layers. Recent studies reveal that the existence of multiple interaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-06 Toni Valles-Catala , Francesco A. Massucci , Roger Guimera , Marta Sales-Pardo

Exploiting the information about members of a Social Network (SN) represents one of the most attractive and dwelling subjects for both academic and applied scientists. The community of Complexity Science and especially those researchers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Gregorio D'Agostino , Antonio De Nicola

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