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This article advances the prerequisite network as a means to visualize the hidden structure in an academic curriculum. Network technologies have been used for some time now in social analyses and more recently in biology in the areas of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-25 Preston R. Aldrich

Network models have been widely used to study diverse systems and analyze their dynamic behaviors. Given the structural variability of networks, an intriguing question arises: Can we infer the type of system represented by a network based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Gonzalo Travieso , Joao Merenda , Odemir M. Bruno

Exponential growth in the quantity of digital news, social media, and other textual sources makes it difficult for humans to keep up with rapidly evolving narratives about world events. Various visualisation techniques have been touted to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Songhai Fan , Simon Angus , Tim Dwyer , Ying Yang , Sarah Goodwin , Helen Purchase

Network theory provides tools which are particularly appropriate for assessing the complex interdependencies that characterise our modern connected world. This article presents an introduction to network theory, in a way that doesn't…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-01 Vaiva Vasiliauskaite , Fernando E. Rosas

Machine Learning with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has become a successful tool in solving tasks across various fields of application. However, the complexity of DNNs makes it difficult to understand how they solve their learned task. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Valerie Krug , Raihan Kabir Ratul , Christopher Olson , Sebastian Stober

Humans communicate, receive, and store information using sequences of items -- from words in a sentence or notes in music to abstract concepts in lectures and books. The networks formed by these items (nodes) and the sequential transitions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-08 Christopher W. Lynn , Danielle S. Bassett

We present a method for visualising the response of a deep neural network to a specific input. For image data for instance our method will highlight areas that provide evidence in favor of, and against choosing a certain class. The method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Luisa M. Zintgraf , Taco S. Cohen , Max Welling

Topological landscape is introduced for networks with functions defined on the nodes. By extending the notion of gradient flows to the network setting, critical nodes of different indices are defined. This leads to a concise and…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-05-01 E. Weinan , Jianfeng Lu , Yuan Yao

In order to take the weight of connection into consideration and to find a natural measurement of weight, we have collected papers in Econophysics and constructed a network of scientific communication to integrate idea transportation among…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Menghui Li , Ying Fan , Jiawei Chen , Liang Gao , Zengru Di , Jinshan Wu

Among all characteristics exhibited by natural and man-made networks the small-world phenomenon is surely the most relevant and popular. But despite its significance, a reliable and comparable quantification of the question `how small is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-27 Gorka Zamora-López , Romain Brasselet

Many problems in industry --- and in the social, natural, information, and medical sciences --- involve discrete data and benefit from approaches from subjects such as network science, information theory, optimization, probability, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Mason A. Porter , Sam D. Howison

We propose a method for characterizing large complex networks by introducing a new matrix structure, unique for a given network, which encodes structural information; provides useful visualization, even for very large networks; and allows…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-28 J. P. Bagrow , E. M. Bollt , J. D. Skufca , D. ben-Avraham

A visualisation tool is presented to facilitate the study on large-scale communications networks. This tool provides a simple and effective way to summarise the topology of a complex network at a coarse level.

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Yuchun Guo , Changjia Chen , Shi Zhou

Many data analysis problems rely on dynamic networks, such as social or communication network analyses. Providing a scalable overview of long sequences of such dynamic networks remains challenging due to the underlying large-scale data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Eren Cakmak , Johannes Fuchs , Dominik Jäckle , Tobias Schreck , Ulrik Brandes , Daniel Keim

The topology of many real complex networks has been conjectured to be embedded in hidden metric spaces, where distances between nodes encode their likelihood of being connected. Besides of providing a natural geometrical interpretation of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-23 Antoine Allard , M. Ángeles Serrano , Guillermo García-Pérez , Marián Boguñá

Network embedding methods aim at learning low-dimensional latent representation of nodes in a network. These representations can be used as features for a wide range of tasks on graphs such as classification, clustering, link prediction,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Haochen Chen , Bryan Perozzi , Rami Al-Rfou , Steven Skiena

The spatial metaphor of the network along with its accompanying abstractions, such as flow, movement, and connectivity, have been central themes throughout the relational turn in human geography. However, to date networks in geography have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Steven M. Radil , Olivier J. Walther

Many real-world networks are so large that we must simplify their structure before we can extract useful information about the systems they represent. As the tools for doing these simplifications proliferate within the network literature,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Rosvall , D. Axelsson , C. T. Bergstrom

Over the last decade, an enormous interest and activity in complex networks have been witnessed within the physics community. On the other hand, diffusion and its theory, have equipped the toolbox of the physicist for decades. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-04 Ingve Simonsen

Network connectivity is usually addressed for convex domains where a direct line of sight exists between any two transmitting/receiving nodes. Here, we develop a general theory for the network connectivity properties across a small opening,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-12-13 Orestis Georgiou , Carl P. Dettmann , Justin Coon