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The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources introduces significant variability and uncertainty in modern power systems, making accurate state prediction critical for reliable grid operation. Conventional forecasting methods often…

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To perform any meaningful optimization task, power distribution operators need to know the topology and line impedances of their electric networks. Nevertheless, distribution grids currently lack a comprehensive metering infrastructure.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Guido Cavraro , Vassilis Kekatos

The coarsest approximation of the structure of a complex network, such as the Internet, is a simple undirected unweighted graph. This approximation, however, loses too much detail. In reality, objects represented by vertices and edges in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-11-02 Xenofontas Dimitropoulos , Dmitri Krioukov , Amin Vahdat , George Riley

The solution of potential-driven steady-state flow in large networks is required in various engineering applications, such as transport of natural gas or water through pipeline networks. The resultant system of nonlinear equations depends…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Shriram Srinivasan , Kaarthik Sundar

Inferring a network's evolutionary history from a single final snapshot with limited temporal annotations is fundamental yet challenging. Existing approaches predominantly rely on topology alone, which often provides insufficient and noisy…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-06 En Xu , Shihe Zhou , Huandong Wang , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li

Routing optimization is a relevant problem in many contexts. Solving directly this type of optimization problem is often computationally unfeasible. Recent studies suggest that one can instead turn this problem into one of solving a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-11 Diego Baptista , Daniela Leite , Enrico Facca , Mario Putti , Caterina De Bacco

The knowledge of the topology of a wired network is often of fundamental importance. For instance, in the context of Power Line Communications (PLC) networks it is helpful to implement data routing strategies, while in power distribution…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Federico Passerini , Andrea M. Tonello

In this paper, we propose a graph neural network architecture to solve the AC power flow problem under realistic constraints. To ensure a safe and resilient operation of distribution grids, AC power flow calculations are the means of choice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Luis Böttcher , Hinrikus Wolf , Bastian Jung , Philipp Lutat , Marc Trageser , Oliver Pohl , Andreas Ulbig , Martin Grohe

The statistical mechanical approach to complex networks is the dominant paradigm in describing natural and societal complex systems. The study of network properties, and their implications on dynamical processes, mostly focus on locally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-27 Giovanni Petri , Martina Scolamiero , Irene Donato , Francesco Vaccarino

Optimal operation of distribution grid resources relies on accurate estimation of its state and topology. Practical estimation of such quantities is complicated by the limited presence of real-time meters. This paper discusses a theoretical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Deepjyoti Deka , Michael Chertkov , Scott Backhaus

Most real-world networks are embedded in latent geometries. If a node in a network is found in the vicinity of another node in the latent geometry, the two nodes have a disproportionately high probability of being connected by a link. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-19 Bukyoung Jhun

We address the problem of inferring the topology of a wireless network using limited observational data. Specifically, we assume that we can detect when a node is transmitting, but no further information regarding the transmission is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 James Martin , Tristan Pryer , Luca Zanetti

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

Inferring network topology from smooth signals is a significant problem in data science and engineering. A common challenge in real-world scenarios is the availability of only partially observed nodes. While some studies have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chuansen Peng , Hanning Tang , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaojing Shen

We study the problem of graph structure identification, i.e., of recovering the graph of dependencies among time series. We model these time series data as components of the state of linear stochastic networked dynamical systems. We assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Sérgio Machado , Anirudh Sridhar , Paulo Gil , Jorge Henriques , José M. F. Moura , Augusto Santos

Networked systems display complex patterns of interactions between a large number of components. In physical networks, these interactions often occur along structural connections that link components in a hard-wired connection topology,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-03 Jason Kim , Jonathan M. Soffer , Ari E. Kahn , Jean M. Vettel , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett

We address the problem of identifying a graph structure from the observation of signals defined on its nodes. Fundamentally, the unknown graph encodes direct relationships between signal elements, which we aim to recover from observable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro

Inferring the network topology from the dynamics is a fundamental problem with wide applications in geology, biology and even counter-terrorism. Based on the propagation process, we present a simple method to uncover the network topology.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-11-21 An Zeng

Revealing the structural features of a complex system from the observed collective dynamics is a fundamental problem in network science. In order to compute the various topological descriptors commonly used to characterize the structure of…

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