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We propose a modeling framework for growing multiplexes where a node can belong to different networks. We define new measures for multiplexes and we identify a number of relevant ingredients for modeling their evolution such as the coupling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-01 Vincenzo Nicosia , Ginestra Bianconi , Vito Latora , Marc Barthelemy

Social and biological contagions are influenced by the spatial embeddedness of networks. Historically, many epidemics spread as a wave across part of the Earth's surface; however, in modern contagions long-range edges -- for example, due to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-07-31 Dane Taylor , Florian Klimm , Heather A. Harrington , Miroslav Kramar , Konstantin Mischaikow , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sebastián Brzovic , Cristóbal Rojas , Andrés Abeliuk

Community detection is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field, but when it comes to analyzing networks with multiple types of interactions, referred to as multilayer networks, there is still a lot of untapped potential. Despite the wide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Randa Boukabene , Fatima Benbouzid Si Tayeb

The emergence of new digital technologies has allowed the study of human behaviour at a scale and at level of granularity that were unthinkable just a decade ago. In particular, by analysing the digital traces left by people interacting in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Mirco Musolesi

High skill labour is an important factor underpinning the competitive advantage of modern economies. Therefore, attracting and retaining scientists has become a major concern for migration policy. In this work, we study the migration of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-15 Giacomo Vaccario , Luca Verginer , Frank Schweitzer

The steady growth of digitized historical information is continuously stimulating new different approaches to the fields of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. In this work, we use Natural Language Processing techniques to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Lorenzo Lucchini , Sara Tonelli , Bruno Lepri

Data-driven analysis of complex networks has been in the focus of research for decades. An important area of research is to study how well real networks can be described with a small selection of metrics, furthermore how well network models…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Marcell Nagy , Roland Molontay

Delineating areas within metropolitan regions stands as an important focus among urban researchers, shedding light on the urban perimeters shaped by evolving population dynamics. Applications to urban science are numerous, from facilitating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Devashish Khulbe , Stanislav Sobolevsky

The success of new scientific areas can be assessed by their potential for contributing to new theoretical approaches and in applications to real-world problems. Complex networks have fared extremely well in both of these aspects, with…

The introduction of network science approaches into public transport research has seen great advances in the past 15 years. However, it has become apparent that monolayer networks are often not sufficient to model and analyse real-world…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-24 Tina Šfiligoj , Renzo Massobrio , Oded Cats

Multiplex networks are generalized network structures that are able to describe networks in which the same set of nodes are connected by links that have different connotations. Multiplex networks are ubiquitous since they describe social,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-01 Jacopo Iacovacci , Ginestra Bianconi

Random networks are increasingly used to analyse complex transportation networks, such as airline routes, roads and rail networks. So far, this research has been focused on describing the properties of the networks with the help of random…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-19 Jürgen Hackl , Bryan T. Adey

Adaptive networks are a novel class of dynamical networks whose topologies and states coevolve. Many real-world complex systems can be modeled as adaptive networks, including social networks, transportation networks, neural networks and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Hiroki Sayama , Irene Pestov , Jeffrey Schmidt , Benjamin James Bush , Chun Wong , Junichi Yamanoi , Thilo Gross

The study of networks plays a crucial role in investigating the structure, dynamics, and function of a wide variety of complex systems in myriad disciplines. Despite the success of traditional network analysis, standard networks provide a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-05 Manlio De Domenico , Clara Granell , Mason A. Porter , Alex Arenas

We discuss a box model of migration in channels of networks with possible application for modelling motion of migrants in migration networks. The channel consists of nodes of the network (nodes may be considered as boxes representing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-05 Nikolay K. Vitanov , Kaloyan N. Vitanov , Tsvetelina Ivanova

Many natural, engineered, and social systems can be represented using the framework of a layered network, where each layer captures a different type of interaction between the same set of nodes. The study of such multiplex networks is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-12 Haochen Wu , Ryan G. James , James P. Crutchfield , Raissa M. D'Souza

The emergence and popularization of online social networks suddenly made available a large amount of data from social organization, interaction and human behavior. All this information opens new perspectives and challenges to the study of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-05 David Burth Kurka , Alan Godoy , Fernando J. Von Zuben

Our world produces massive data every day; they exist in diverse forms, from pairwise data and matrix to time series and trajectories. Meanwhile, we have access to the versatile toolkit of network analysis. Networks also have different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Jian Xu

Multiple scales coexist in complex networks. However, the small world property makes them strongly entangled. This turns the elucidation of length scales and symmetries a defiant challenge. Here, we define a geometric renormalization group…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-04 Guillermo García-Pérez , Marián Boguñá , M. Ángeles Serrano