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Many real-world phenomena are naturally modeled by graphs and networks. However, classical graph models are often limited to pairwise interactions and may not adequately capture the richer structures that arise in practice. Higher-order…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Takaaki Fujita , Florentin Smarandache

Networks provide a powerful formalism for modeling complex systems by using a model of pairwise interactions. But much of the structure within these systems involves interactions that take place among more than two nodes at once; for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Austin R. Benson , Rediet Abebe , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie , Jon Kleinberg

Looking to overcome the limitations of traditional networks, the network science community has lately given much attention to the so-called higher-order networks, where group interactions are modeled alongside pairwise ones. While degree…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-11 Demival Vasques Filho

The interactions between individuals play a pivotal role in shaping the structure and dynamics of social systems. Complex network models have proven invaluable in uncovering the underlying mechanisms that govern the formation and evolution…

Complex network theory aims to model and analyze complex systems that consist of multiple and interdependent components. Among all studies on complex networks, topological structure analysis is of the most fundamental importance, as it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-09-15 Bo Yang , Jiming Liu

Large-scale network systems describe a wide class of complex dynamical systems composed of many interacting subsystems. A large number of subsystems and their high-dimensional dynamics often result in highly complex topology and dynamics,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Xiaodong Cheng , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen , Harry L. Trentelman

A complex network is a condensed representation of the relational topological framework of a complex system. A main reason for the existence of such networks is the transmission of items through the entities of these complex systems. Here,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-18 María Pereda , Ernesto Estrada

To understand the formation, evolution, and function of complex systems, it is crucial to understand the internal organization of their interaction networks. Partly due to the impossibility of visualizing large complex networks, resolving…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-30 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

This paper is an extensive survey of literature on complex network communities and clustering. Complex networks describe a widespread variety of systems in nature and society especially systems composed by a large number of highly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Biswajit Saha , Amitabha Mandal , Soumendu Bikas Tripathy , Debaprasad Mukherjee

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

Higher-order structures of networks, namely, small subgraphs of networks (also called network motifs), are widely known to be crucial and essential to the organization of networks. There has been a few work studying the community detection…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-14 Xiao Guo , Hai Zhang , Xiangyu Chang

We uncover the global organization of clustering in real complex networks. As it happens with other fundamental properties of networks such as the degree distribution, we find that real networks are neither completely random nor ordered…

To comprehend the hierarchical organization of large integrated systems, we introduce the hierarchical map equation, which reveals multilevel structures in networks. In this information-theoretic approach, we exploit the duality between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-04-12 M. Rosvall , C. T. Bergstrom

Empirical complex systems can be characterized not only by pairwise interactions, but also by higher-order (group) interactions influencing collective phenomena, from metabolic reactions to epidemics. Nevertheless, higher-order networks'…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-01 Maxime Lucas , Luca Gallo , Arsham Ghavasieh , Federico Battiston , Manlio De Domenico

Generative mechanisms which lead to empirically observed structure of networked systems from diverse fields like biology, technology and social sciences form a very important part of study of complex networks. The structure of many…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-03 Snehal M. Shekatkar , G. Ambika

Many networks can be characterised by the presence of communities, which are groups of units that are closely linked. Identifying these communities can be crucial for understanding the system's overall function. Recently, hypergraphs have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

Inspired by empirical studies of networked systems such as the Internet, social networks, and biological networks, researchers have in recent years developed a variety of techniques and models to help us understand or predict the behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. E. J. Newman

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

The human brain is a complex system defined by multi-way, higher-order interactions invisible to traditional pairwise network models. Although a diverse array of analytical methods has been developed to address this shortcoming, the field…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-11 Mohamma Reza Salehi , Ali BashirGonbadi , Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh

To understand collective network behavior in the complex human brain, pairwise correlation networks alone are insufficient for capturing the high-order interactions that extend beyond pairwise interactions and play a crucial role in brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-01 Qiang Li , Jingyu Liu , Vince D. Calhoun