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The modeling of diffusion processes on graphs is the basis for many network science and machine learning approaches. Entropic measures of network-based diffusion have recently been employed to investigate the reversibility of these…

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An increasing abstraction has marked some recent investigations in network science. Examples include the development of algorithms that map time series data into networks whose vertices and edges can have different interpretations, beyond…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-24 Arthur A. B. Pessa , Haroldo V. Ribeiro

We introduce the concept of natural connectivity as a robustness measure of complex networks. The natural connectivity has a clear physical meaning and a simple mathematical formulation. It characterizes the redundancy of alternative paths…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-20 Jun Wu , Yue-Jin Tan , Hong-Zhong Deng , Yong Li , Bin Liu , Xin Lv

Random network models play a prominent role in modeling, analyzing and understanding complex phenomena on real-life networks. However, a key property of networks is often neglected: many real-world networks exhibit spatial structure, the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-07 John Lang , Hans De Sterck , Jamieson L. Kaiser , Joel C. Miller

Connectivity of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a fundamental global property expected to be maintained even though some sensor nodes are at fault. In this paper, we investigate the connectivity of random geometric graphs (RGGs) in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Satoshi Takabe , Tadashi Wadayama

Designing reliable networks consists in finding topological structures, which are able to successfully carry out desired processes and operations. When this set of activities performed within a network are unknown and the only available…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-22 Stefano Nasini

Real-world social and economic networks typically display a number of particular topological properties, such as a giant connected component, a broad degree distribution, the small-world property and the presence of communities of densely…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-09-05 Diego Garlaschelli , Sebastian E. Ahnert , Thomas M. A. Fink , Guido Caldarelli

In this work we introduce Dynamic Random Geometric Graphs as a basic rough model for mobile wireless sensor networks, where communication distances are set to the known threshold for connectivity of static random geometric graphs. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Josep Diaz , Dieter Mitsche , Xavier Perez

Breaking of equivalence between the microcanonical ensemble and the canonical ensemble, describing a large system subject to hard and soft constraints, respectively, was recently shown to occur in large random graphs. Hard constraints must…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Diego Garlaschelli , Frank den Hollander , Andrea Roccaverde

In practice, many empirical networks, including co-authorship and collocation networks are unimodal projections of a bipartite data structure where one layer represents entities, the second layer consists of a number of sets representing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-07 Navid Dianati

One of the most important features of spatial networks such as transportation networks, power grids, Internet, neural networks, is the existence of a cost associated with the length of links. Such a cost has a profound influence on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-04 Rémi Louf , Pablo Jensen , Marc Barthelemy

The spectral density of random graphs with topological constraints is analysed using the replica method. We consider graph ensembles featuring generalised degree-degree correlations, as well as those with a community structure. In each case…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-04-08 Tim Rogers , Conrad Pérez Vicente , Koujin Takeda , Isaac Pérez Castillo

An important problem in wireless sensor networks is to find the minimal number of randomly deployed sensors making a network connected with a given probability. In practice sensors are often deployed one by one along a trajectory of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-10 V. Kurlin , L. Mihaylova

We introduce the problem of finding a spanning tree along with a partition of the tree edges into fewest number of feasible sets, where constraints on the edges define feasibility. The motivation comes from wireless networking, where we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Magnus M. Halldorsson , Guy Kortsarz , Pradipta Mitra , Tigran Tonoyan

New entropy measures have been recently introduced for the quantification of the complexity of networks. Most of these entropy measures apply to static networks or to dynamical processes defined on static complex networks. In this paper we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-30 Kun Zhao , Arda Halu , Simone Severini , Ginestra Bianconi

Random tensor networks are a powerful toy model for understanding the entanglement structure of holographic quantum gravity. However, unlike holographic quantum gravity, their entanglement spectra are flat. It has therefore been argued that…

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In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring structural regularities of networks by dividing the nodes of a network into groups such that the members of each group have similar patterns of connections to other groups. Specifically,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-30 Hua-Wei Shen , Xue-Qi Cheng , Jia-Feng Guo

Complex numbers define the relationship between entities in many situations. A canonical example would be the off-diagonal terms in a Hamiltonian matrix in quantum physics. Recent years have seen an increasing interest to extend the tools…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yu Tian , Renaud Lambiotte

We discuss the problem of extending data mining approaches to cases in which data points arise in the form of individual graphs. Being able to find the intrinsic low-dimensionality in ensembles of graphs can be useful in a variety of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-18 Karthikeyan Rajendran , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Within network analysis, the analytical maximum entropy framework has been very successful for different tasks as network reconstruction and filtering. In a recent paper, the same framework was used for link-prediction for monopartite…