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Studying distributed computing through the lens of algebraic topology has been the source of many significant breakthroughs during the last two decades, especially in the design of lower bounds or impossibility results for deterministic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Pierre Fraigniaud , Ran Gelles , Zvi Lotker

Clustering in stationary and nonstationary settings, where data distributions remain static or evolve over time, requires models that can adapt to distributional shifts while preserving previously learned cluster structures. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Naoki Masuyama , Yuichiro Toda , Yusuke Nojima , Hisao Ishibuchi

Growing graphs describe a multitude of developing processes from maturing brains to expanding vocabularies to burgeoning public transit systems. Each of these growing processes likely adheres to proliferation rules that establish an…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-27 Ann Sizemore Blevins , Danielle S. Bassett

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

We consider a finite structured population of mobile individuals that strategically explore a network using a Markov movement model and interact with each other via a public goods game. We extend the model of Erovenko et al. (2019) from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-11 Igor V. Erovenko , Mark Broom

In this work we present a clustering technique called \textit{multi-level conformal clustering (MLCC)}. The technique is hierarchical in nature because it can be performed at multiple significance levels which yields greater insight into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-25 Ilia Nouretdinov , James Gammerman , Matteo Fontana , Daljit Rehal

The design of mechanisms that encourage pro-social behaviours in populations of self-regarding agents is recognised as a major theoretical challenge within several areas of social, life and engineering sciences. When interference from…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Theodor Cimpeanu , The Anh Han , Francisco C. Santos

Topological data analysis is an emerging field that applies the study of topological invariants to data. Perhaps the simplest of these invariants is the number of connected components or clusters. In this work, we explore a topological…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ian Stewart Joyce , Grant Erdmann , Kirk P. Gardner , Ryan Kramer , Kyle Siegrist

We found that the differential topology of the lattice-system of Ising model determines whether there can be the continuous phase transition, the geometric topology of the space the lattice-system is embedded in determines whether the…

General Physics · Physics 2010-01-06 You-gang Feng

Modeling distributed computing in a way enabling the use of formal methods is a challenge that has been approached from different angles, among which two techniques emerged at the turn of the century: protocol complexes, and directed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Pierre Fraigniaud , Ami Paz

Robustness against small perturbations is a crucial feature of topological properties. This robustness is both a source of theoretical interest and a drive for technological applications, but presents a challenge when looking for new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Cyrill Bösch , Tena Dubček , Frank Schindler , Andreas Fichtner , Marc Serra-Garcia

We study the effect of learning dynamics on network topology. A network of discrete dynamical systems is considered for this purpose and the coupling strengths are made to evolve according to a temporal learning rule that is based on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juergen Jost , Kiran M. Kolwankar

The effect of topology on the collapse transition and instantaneous shape of an energy polydisperse polymer (a model heteropolymer) is studied by means of computer simulations. In particular, we consider three different chain topology,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-24 Thoudam Vilip Singh , Lenin S. Shagolsem

Societies are quintessential open systems, shaped by internal dynamics as well as external influences. The question is how these external influences alter the collective behavior and network dynamics. To answer this, we investigate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-11 S. Arab Mohammadi , H. Jafari , A. Kargaran , A. Hosseiny , G. Reza Jafari

In an earlier paper, we introduced and studied a system of hierarchically interacting measure-valued random processes which describes a large population of individuals carrying types and living in colonies labelled by the hierarchical group…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-10 Andreas Greven , Frank den Hollander , Anton Klimovsky

The study of time-varying (dynamic) networks (graphs) is of fundamental importance for computer network analytics. Several methods have been proposed to detect the effect of significant structural changes in a time series of graphs. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Peter Wills , Francois G. Meyer

Phase separation mechanisms can produce a variety of complicated and intricate microstructures, which often can be difficult to characterize in a quantitative way. In recent years, a number of novel topological metrics for microstructures…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Paweł Dłotko , Thomas Wanner

It has been proposed that adaptation in complex systems is optimized at the critical boundary between ordered and disordered dynamical regimes. Here, we review models of evolving dynamical networks that lead to self-organization of network…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-11-07 Thimo Rohlf , Stefan Bornholdt

The role of polarization in the topology of quantum emitter chains is investigated theoretically, whereby "polarization" refers to the transition dipole moments of the emitters. We show that, if the chain is zigzag-shaped, different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Jonathan Sturm , Adriana Pálffy

This paper presents an analytical framework to model fault-tolerance in unstructured peer-to-peer overlays, represented as complex networks. We define a distributed protocol peers execute for managing the overlay and reacting to node…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-09 Stefano Ferretti