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In previous work, empirical evidence indicated that a time-varying network could propagate sufficient information to allow synchronization of the sometimes coupled oscillators, despite an instantaneously disconnected topology. We prove here…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Stilwell , Erik Bollt , D. Gray Roberson

Synchronization is ubiquitous in nature, which is mathematically described by coupled oscillators. Synchronization strongly depends on the interaction network, and the network plays a crucial role in controlling the dynamics. To understand…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-19 Akari Matsuki , Hiroshi Kori , Ryota Kobayashi

We investigate in depth the synchronization of coupled oscillators on top of complex networks with different degrees of heterogeneity within the context of the Kuramoto model. In a previous paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 034101 (2007)], we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-29 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno , Alex Arenas

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

Networks play a prominent role in the study of complex systems of interacting entities in biology, sociology, and economics. Despite this diversity, we demonstrate here that a statistical model decomposing networks into matching and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-05 Rudolf P. Rohr , Russel E. Naisbit , Christian Mazza , Louix-Félix Bersier

The ability to achieve coordinated behavior --engineered or emergent-- on networked systems has attracted widespread interest over several fields. This has led to remarkable advances on the development of a theoretical understanding of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Hancheng Min , Enrique Mallada

Network centrality is a foundational concept for quantifying the importance of nodes within a network. Many traditional centrality measures--such as degree and betweenness centrality--are purely structural and often overlook the dynamics…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xinran Zheng , Leonardo Massai , Massimo Franceschetti , Behrouz Touri

Random walk centrality is a fundamental metric in graph mining for quantifying node importance and influence, defined as the weighted average of hitting times to a node from all other nodes. Despite its ability to capture rich graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Changan Liu , Zixuan Xie , Ahad N. Zehmakan , Zhongzhi Zhang

The emergence of collective behaviors in networks of dynamical units in pairwise interaction has been explained as the effect of diffusive coupling. How does the presence of higher-order interaction impact the onset of spontaneous or…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-10-05 Fabio Della Rossa , Davide Liuzza , Francesco Lo Iudice , Pietro De Lellis

The emergence of synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators is a pervasive topic in various scientific disciplines ranging from biology, physics, and chemistry to social networks and engineering applications. A coupled oscillator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-07 Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

In this paper, we investigate how the internal dynamics of the systems within a network influence the transition to synchronization in adaptive networks of coupled Rossler systems. The network structure is dynamically determined by local…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-09-11 Romuald Mbonwouo , Steve J. Kongni , Sishu Shankar Muni , Carmel T. Lambu , Venceslas Nguefoue , Patrick Louodop , Thierry Njougouo

The structure of many real-world systems is best captured by networks consisting of several interaction layers. Understanding how a multi-layered structure of connections affects the synchronization properties of dynamical systems evolving…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-17 Charo I. del Genio , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Ivan Bonamassa , Stefano Boccaletti

Knowledge graphs play a central role for linking different data which leads to multiple layers. Thus, they are widely used in big data integration, especially for connecting data from different domains. Few studies have investigated the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jens Dörpinghaus , Vera Weil , Carsten Düing , Martin W. Sommer

Synchronization, in which individual dynamical units keep in pace with each other in a decentralized fashion, depends both on the dynamical units and on the properties of the interaction network. Yet, the role played by the network has…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-06-15 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

Dynamical networks are important models for the behaviour of complex systems, modelling physical, biological and societal systems, including the brain, food webs, epidemic disease in populations, power grids and many other. Such dynamical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-27 Deniz Eroglu , Jeroen Lamb , Tiago Pereira

While shorter characteristic path length has in general been believed to enhance synchronizability of a coupled oscillator system on a complex network,the suppressing tendency of the heterogeneity of the degree distribution, even for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Hong , Beom Jun Kim , M. Y. Choi , Hyunggyu Park

We study explosive synchronization, a phenomenon characterized by first-order phase transitions between incoherent and synchronized states in networks of coupled oscillators. While explosive synchronization has been the subject of many…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-08-22 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas

We study the problem of synchronizing a general complex network by means of an adaptive strategy in the case where the network topology is slowly time varying and every node receives at each time only one aggregate signal from the set of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Francesco Sorrentino , Edward Ott

Networks are universally considered as complex structures of interactions of large multi-component systems. In order to determine the role that each node has inside a complex network, several centrality measures have been developed. Such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-20 Malbor Asllani , Bruno Requiao da Cunha , Ernesto Estrada , James P. Gleeson

The understanding of emergent collective phenomena in natural and social systems has driven the interest of scientists from different disciplines during decades. Among these phenomena, the synchronization of a set of interacting individuals…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno , Alex Arenas