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Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable to execute alone. The evolutionary success of our species is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-13 Matjaz Perc , Jillian J. Jordan , David G. Rand , Zhen Wang , Stefano Boccaletti , Attila Szolnoki

Sequences of correlated binary patterns can represent many time-series data including text, movies, and biological signals. These patterns may be described by weighted combinations of a few dominant structures that underpin specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-29 Jimmy Gaudreault , Arunabh Saxena , Hideaki Shimazaki

The propagation of traffic congestion along roads is a commonplace nonlinear phenomenon. When many roads are connected in a network, congestion can spill from one road to others as drivers queue to enter a congested road, creating further…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Matthew A. Wright , Roberto Horowitz , Alex A. Kurzhanskiy

Clustering is the propensity of nodes that share a common neighbour to be connected. It is ubiquitous in many networks but poses many modelling challenges. Clustering typically manifests itself by a higher than expected frequency of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Martin Ritchie , Luc Berthouze , Istvan Z. Kiss

Group consensus implies reaching multiple groups where agents belonging to the same cluster reach state consensus. This paper focuses on linear multi-agent systems under nonnegative directed graphs. A new necessary and sufficient condition…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Zhongchang Liu , Wing Shing Wong

Recent developments in complex systems have witnessed that many real-world scenarios, successfully represented as networks are not always restricted to binary interactions but often include higher-order interactions among the nodes. These…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-04-22 Md Sayeed Anwar , Dibakar Ghosh

In modern interconnected societies, opinions and beliefs can quickly spread across large populations, giving rise to collective behaviors such as the adoption of social norms or polarization. These phenomena have motivated many models aimed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-27 Cosimo Agostinelli , Marco Mancastroppa , Alain Barrat

In this paper, we propose a numerical investigation of topological interactions in flocking dynamics. Starting from a microscopic description of the phenomena, mesoscopic and macroscopic models have been previously derived under specific…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Marta Menci , Thierry Paul , Stefano Rossi , Tommaso Tenna

Activity in the human brain moves between diverse functional states to meet the demands of our dynamic environment, but fundamental principles guiding these transitions remain poorly understood. Here, we capitalize on recent advances in…

Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social networks. Here we propose a framework based on statistical inference to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Understanding cooperation in social dilemmas requires models that capture the complexity of real-world interactions. While network frameworks have provided valuable insights to model the evolution of cooperation, they are unable to encode…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-15 Onkar Sadekar , Andrea Civilini , Vito Latora , Federico Battiston

A consensus system is a linear multi-agent system in which agents communicate to reach a so-called consensus state, defined as the average of the initial states of the agents. Consider a more generalized situation in which each agent is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Xudong Chen , M. -A. Belabbas , Tamer Basar

Interaction quenches in strongly correlated electron systems provide a powerful route to probe nonequilibrium many-body dynamics. For the Hubbard model, nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory has revealed coherent post-quench…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-30 Sankha Subhra Bakshi , Gia-Wei Chern

There has been substantial work studying consensus problems for which there is a single common final state, although there are many real-world complex networks for which the complete consensus may be undesirable. More recently, the concept…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-24 Isaac Klickstein , Louis Pecora , Francesco Sorrentino

The microscopic organization of dynamical systems coupled via higher-order interactions plays a pivotal role in understanding their collective behavior. In this paper, we introduce a framework for systematically investigating the impact of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-14 Santiago Lamata-Otín , Federico Malizia , Vito Latora , Mattia Frasca , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

Recent research has focused on understanding how cooperation is fostered through various mechanisms in cognitive settings, particularly through pairwise interactions. However, real-world interactions often extend beyond simple dyads,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-16 Yin-Jie Ma , Zhi-Qiang Jiang , Fan-Shu Fang , Matjaz Perc , Stefano Boccaletti

Understanding how opinions spread through a community or how consensus emerges in noisy environments can have a significant impact on our comprehension of social relations among individuals. In this work a model for the dynamics of opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Schwammle , M. C. Gonzalez , A. A. Moreira , J. S. Jr. Andrade , H. J. Herrmann

Living systems exhibit complex yet organized behavior on multiple spatiotemporal scales. To investigate the nature of multiscale coordination in living systems, one needs a meaningful and systematic way to quantify the complex dynamics, a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-03-11 Mengsen Zhang , William D. Kalies , J. A. Scott Kelso , Emmanuelle Tognoli

Opinion dynamics on networks has wide applications to empirical and engineered systems and profound prospects in the general study of complex systems. Many efforts have been devoted to understanding how opinion dynamics is affected by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-12 Mingwu Li , Harry Dankowicz

This brief addresses the distributed consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems under a general directed communication topology. Each agent is governed by higher-order dynamics with mismatched uncertainties, multiple completely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gang Wang , Chaoli Wang , Zhengtao Ding , Yunfeng Ji