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Recent progress in network topology modeling [1], [2] has shown that it is possible to create smaller-scale replicas of large complex networks, like the Internet, while simultaneously preserving several important topological properties.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Constantinos Psomas , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos

This study introduces an algorithm that generates undirected graphs with three main characteristics of real-world networks: scale-freeness, short distances between nodes (small-world phenomenon), and large clustering coefficients. The main…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-27 João Pedro C. Morais , Ruben Interian

The topology of any complex system is key to understanding its structure and function. Fundamentally, algebraic topology guarantees that any system represented by a network can be understood through its closed paths. The length of each path…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-17 Pierre-André G. Maugis , Sofia C. Olhede , Patrick J. Wolfe

The development of chemical reaction models aids understanding and prediction in areas ranging from biology to electrochemistry and combustion. A systematic approach to building reaction network models uses observational data not only to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Nikhil Galagali , Youssef M. Marzouk

Diffusion processes in networks are increasingly used to model the spread of information and social influence. In several applications in computational sustainability such as the spread of wildlife, infectious diseases and traffic mobility…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Akshat Kumar , Daniel Sheldon , Biplav Srivastava

The control of complex systems is an ongoing challenge of complexity research. Recent advances using concepts of structural control deduce a wide range of control related properties from the network representation of complex systems. Here,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-31 Márton Pósfai , Philipp Hövel

We propose a general framework for modelling network data that is designed to describe aspects of non-exchangeable networks. Conditional on latent (unobserved) variables, the edges of the network are generated by their finite growth history…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Weichi Wu , Sofia Olhede , Patrick Wolfe

This paper considers networks where relationships between nodes are represented by directed dissimilarities. The goal is to study methods that, based on the dissimilarity structure, output hierarchical clusters, i.e., a family of nested…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Gunnar Carlsson , Facundo Mémoli , Alejandro Ribeiro , Santiago Segarra

Data-driven analysis of large social networks has attracted a great deal of research interest. In this paper, we investigate 120 real social networks and their measurement-calibrated synthetic counterparts generated by four well-known…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Marcell Nagy , Roland Molontay

We investigate static and dynamic topologies of a 2-mode real world university-industry cooperation network. Due to its large size and complex structure, we choose to use statistical proxies for this goal. Among the findings, we shall call…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Yuri Campbell

Network datasets appear across a wide range of scientific fields, including biology, physics, and the social sciences. To enable data-driven discoveries from these networks, statistical inference techniques like estimation and hypothesis…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-19 Arpan Kumar , Minh Tang , Srijan Sengupta

Based on solid theoretical foundations, we present strong evidences that a number of real-life networks, taken from different domains like Internet measurements, biological data, web graphs, social and collaboration networks, exhibit…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Muad Abu-Ata , Feodor F. Dragan

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

We study the fundamental limits on learning latent community structure in dynamic networks. Specifically, we study dynamic stochastic block models where nodes change their community membership over time, but where edges are generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-20 Amir Ghasemian , Pan Zhang , Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , Leto Peel

In a recent Letter, Yang et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 258701 (2012)] introduced the concept of observability transitions: the percolation-like emergence of a macroscopic observable component in graphs in which the state of a fraction of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-11 Antoine Allard , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Jean-Gabriel Young , Louis J. Dubé

We investigate the onset of the discontinuous percolation transition in small-world hyperbolic networks by studying the systems-size scaling of the typical largest cluster approaching the transition, $p\nearrow p_{c}$. To this end, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-01 Vijay Singh , Stefan Boettcher

The problem of finding clusters in complex networks has been extensively studied by mathematicians, computer scientists and, more recently, by physicists. Many of the existing algorithms partition a network into clear clusters, without…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 David Gfeller , Jean-Cédric Chappelier , Paolo De Los Rios

This paper studies the observability radius of network systems, which measures the robustness of a network to perturbations of the edges. We consider linear networks, where the dynamics are described by a weighted adjacency matrix, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Gianluca Bianchin , Paolo Frasca , Andrea Gasparri , Fabio Pasqualetti

The representation of complex systems as networks is inappropriate for the study of certain problems. We show several examples of social, biological, ecological and technological systems where the use of complex networks gives very limited…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-02 Ernesto Estrada , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez

We propose a novel statistical model for sparse networks with overlapping community structure. The model is based on representing the graph as an exchangeable point process, and naturally generalizes existing probabilistic models with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-06 Adrien Todeschini , Xenia Miscouridou , François Caron