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Over the past decade network theory has turned out to be a powerful methodology to investigate complex systems of various sorts. Through data analysis, modeling, and simulation quite an unparalleled insight into their structure, function,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-07-16 Kimmo Kaski

We define a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks containing the most relevant features of real routing schemes, i.e. a trade--off strategy between topological-based and traffic-based routing. The resulting collective behavior,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniele De Martino , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi , Matteo Marsili

What can we learn about controlling a system solely from its underlying network structure? Here we adapt a recently developed framework for control of networks governed by a broad class of nonlinear dynamics that includes the major dynamic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-07 Jorge G. T. Zañudo , Gang Yang , Réka Albert

Modeling the associations between real world entities from their multivariate cross-sectional profiles can provide cues into the concerted working of these entities as a system. Several techniques have been proposed for deciphering these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Radha Nagarajan , Marco Scutari

Real-world complex systems such as ecological communities and neuron networks are essential parts of our everyday lives. These systems are composed of units which interact through intricate networks. The ability to predict sudden changes in…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-07-05 Deniz Eroglu , Matteo Tanzi , Sebastian van Strien , Tiago Pereira

The response of complex networks to perturbations is of utmost importance in areas as diverse as ecosystem management, emergency response, and cell reprogramming. A fundamental property of networks is that the perturbation of one node can…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-05-20 Sean P. Cornelius , William L. Kath , Adilson E. Motter

Many optimization, inference and learning tasks can be accomplished efficiently by means of decentralized processing algorithms where the network topology (i.e., the graph) plays a critical role in enabling the interactions among…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Vincenzo Matta , Augusto Santos , Ali H. Sayed

In this Letter we propose a method to control a set of arbitrary nodes in a directed network such that they follow a synchronous trajectory which is, in general, not shared by the other units of the network. The problem is inspired to those…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-19 Bruno Ursino , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Vito Latora , Mattia Frasca

Better understanding our ability to control an interconnected system of entities has been one of the central challenges in network science. The theories of node and edge controllability have been the main methodologies suggested to find the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Milan van den Heuvel , Jannes Nys

Our ability to manipulate the behavior of complex networks depends on the design of efficient control algorithms and, critically, on the availability of an accurate and tractable model of the network dynamics. While the design of control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Giacomo Baggio , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

In this paper, we study the target controllability problem of networked dynamical systems, in which we are tasked to steer a subset of network states towards a desired objective. More specifically, we derive necessary and sufficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Jingqi Li , Ximing Chen , Sérgio Pequito , George J. Pappas , Victor M. Preciado

Several approaches to cognition and intelligence research rely on statistics-based models testing, namely factor analysis. In the present work we exploit the emerging dynamical systems perspective putting the focus on the role of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-15 Gemma Rosell-Tarragó , Emanuele Cozzo , Albert Díaz-Guilera

Graph neural networks have demonstrated excellent applicability to a wide range of domains, including social networks, biological systems, recommendation systems, and wireless communications. Yet a principled theoretical understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xinping Yi

Random graph (RG) models play a central role in the complex networks analysis. They help to understand, control, and predict phenomena occurring, for instance, in social networks, biological networks, the Internet, etc. Despite a large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Mikhail Drobyshevskiy , Denis Turdakov

Network alignment is a problem of finding the node mapping between similar networks. It links the data from separate sources and is widely studied in bioinformation and social network fields. The critical difference between network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Hailong Li , Naiyue Chen

It is well-known that biological and social interaction networks have a varying degree of redundancy, though a consensus of the precise cause of this is so far lacking. In this paper, we introduce a topological redundancy measure for…

We introduce the concept of control centrality to quantify the ability of a single node to control a directed weighted network. We calculate the distribution of control centrality for several real networks and find that it is mainly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-01 Yang-Yu Liu , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Albert-László Barabási

Turing's model has been widely used to explain how simple, uniform structures can give rise to complex, patterned structures during the development of organisms. However, it is very hard to establish rigorous theoretical results for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Tianhao Li , Ruichang Zhang , Zhixin Liu , Zhuo Zou , Xiaoming Hu

Methods for efficiently controlling dynamics propagated on networks are usually based on identifying the most influential nodes. Knowledge of these nodes can be used for the targeted control of dynamics such as epidemics, or for modifying…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-07 Kieran J. Sharkey

In this article, we utilize the concept of average controllability in graphs, along with a novel rank encoding method, to enhance the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in social network classification tasks. GNNs have proven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Anwar Said , Yifan Wei , Obaid Ullah Ahmad , Mudassir Shabbir , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos