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Dynamical networks are powerful tools for modeling a broad range of complex systems, including financial markets, brains, and ecosystems. They encode how the basic elements (nodes) of these systems interact altogether (via links) and evolve…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-13 Edward Laurence , Nicolas Doyon , Louis J Dubé , Patrick Desrosiers

We study the evolution of the network properties of a populated network embedded in a genotype space characterised by either a low or a high number of potential links, with particular emphasis on the connectivity and clustering. Evolution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Anderson , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Climate change is reshaping species interactions and movement across fragmented landscapes. Despite this, most mathematical models assume random diffusion, overlooking the influence of directed movement. Here, we develop a graph based…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Pranali Roy Chowdhury , Soumyendu Raha

In an increasingly interconnected world, a key scientific challenge is to examine mechanisms that lead to the widespread propagation of contagions, such as misinformation and pathogens, and identify risk factors that can trigger large-scale…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Mansi Sood , Hejin Gu , Rashad Eletreby , Swarun Kumar , Chai Wah Wu , Osman Yagan

We demonstrate that graphs embedded on surfaces are a powerful and practical tool to generate, characterize and simulate networks with a broad range of properties. Remarkably, the study of topologically embedded graphs is non-restrictive…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-19 Tomaso Aste , Ruggero Gramatica , T. Di Matteo

Complex systems are made up of many interacting components. Network science provides the tools to analyze and understand these interactions. Community detection is a key technique in network science for uncovering the structures that shape…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-16 Louis Boucherie

Different types of graphs and complex networks have been characterized, analyzed, and modeled based on measurements of their respective topology. However, the available networks may constitute approximations of the original structure as a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Alexandre Benatti , Roberto M. Cesar , Luciano da F. Costa

Revealing the structural features of a complex system from the observed collective dynamics is a fundamental problem in network science. In order to compute the various topological descriptors commonly used to characterize the structure of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-02-16 Sebastian Raimondo , Manlio De Domenico

Complex systems are usually represented as an intricate set of relations between their components forming a complex graph or network. The understanding of their functioning and emergent properties are strongly related to their structural…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-01-08 Sergio Gomez , Alberto Fernandez , Clara Granell , Alex Arenas

In this paper, we propose an evolving network model growing fast in units of module, based on the analysis of the evolution characteristics in real complex networks. Each module is a small-world network containing several interconnected…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-10-11 Zou Zhi-Yun , Liu Peng , Lei Li , Gao Jian-Zhi

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

There is growing recognition that the network structures arising from interactions between different entities in physical, social and biological systems fundamentally alter the evolutionary outcomes. Previous paradigm exploring evolutionary…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-08 Yao Meng , Sean P. Cornelius , Yang-Yu Liu , Aming Li

Assortative mixing in networks is the tendency for nodes with the same attributes, or metadata, to link to each other. It is a property often found in social networks manifesting as a higher tendency of links occurring between people with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Leto Peel , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Renaud Lambiotte

Graphs with diverse structural characteristics play a central role in modelling and optimization tasks. The ability to generate different types of graphs that exhibit shared properties is likewise essential for algorithm selection and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hendrik Richter , Frank Neumann

A large variety of real systems are composed by entities in relationships which can be represented by networks. In many of these systems, elements are embedded in the space and location information impacts properties and evolution. Local…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-09 Michele Tirico , Stefan Balev , Antoine Dutot , Damien Olivier

Population structure can be modelled by evolutionary graphs, which can have a substantial, but very subtle influence on the fate of the arising mutants. Individuals are located on the nodes of these graphs, competing with each other to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-31 Marius Möller , Laura Hindersin , Arne Traulsen

Several fundamental properties of real complex networks, such as the small-world effect, the scale-free degree distribution, and recently discovered topological fractal structure, have presented the possibility of a unique growth mechanism…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 Liuhua Zou , Wenjiang Pei , Tao Li , Zhenya He , Yiuming Cheung

The structure of real-world networks is usually difficult to characterize owing to the variation of topological scales, the nondyadic complex interactions, and the fluctuations in the network. We aim to address these problems by introducing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Quoc Hoan Tran , Van Tuan Vo , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

How does connectivity impact network dynamics? We address this question by linking network characteristics on two scales. On the global scale we consider the coherence of overall network dynamics. We show that such \emph{global coherence}…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-13 Yu Hu , James Trousdale , Krešimir Josić , Eric Shea-Brown

In complex multivariate systems, interactions among variables are defined by dependency structures, often encoded as directed acyclic graphs ($\text{DAGs}$). However, dependency structures can vary across subjects, and ignoring this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Honglin Du , Muxuan Liang , Xiang Zhong