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Networks are a fundamental model of complex systems throughout the sciences, and network datasets are typically analyzed through lower-order connectivity patterns described at the level of individual nodes and edges. However, higher-order…

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Ecological models traditionally explain stability and coexistence through pairwise interactions among species. These interactions can also involve groups of three or more species, higher-order interactions, which recent theory suggests can…

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We study the evolution of networks through `triplets' - three-node graphlets. We develop a method to compute a transition matrix to describe the evolution of triplets in temporal networks. To identify the importance of higher-order…

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To understand the formation, evolution, and function of complex systems, it is crucial to understand the internal organization of their interaction networks. Partly due to the impossibility of visualizing large complex networks, resolving…

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Although networks provide a powerful approach to study a large variety of ecological systems, their formulation does not typically account for multiple interaction types, interactions that vary in space and time, and interconnected systems…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-27 Shai Pilosof , Mason A. Porter , Mercedes Pascual , Sonia Kéfi

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

Phase separation, crucial for spatially segregating biomolecules in cells, is well-understood in the simple case of a few components with pairwise interactions. Yet, biological cells challenge the simple picture in at least two ways: First,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-12 Chengjie Luo , Yicheng Qiang , David Zwicker

Complex networks have been successfully used to describe the spread of diseases in populations of interacting individuals. Conversely, pairwise interactions are often not enough to characterize social contagion processes such as opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-15 Iacopo Iacopini , Giovanni Petri , Alain Barrat , Vito Latora

The analysis of complex and time-evolving interactions like social dynamics represents a current challenge for the science of complex systems. Temporal networks stand as a suitable tool to schematise such systems, encoding all the appearing…

Synchronization processes play critical roles in the functionality of a wide range of both natural and man-made systems. Recent work in physics and neuroscience highlights the importance of higher-order interactions between dynamical units,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-08-03 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas

Complex networks are universal, arising in fields as disparate as sociology, physics, and biology. In the past decade, extensive research into the properties and behaviors of complex systems has uncovered surprising commonalities among the…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-26 Claire Christensen , Reka Albert

Social scientists have long appreciated that relationships between individuals cannot be described from observing a single domain, and that the structure across domains of interaction can have important effects on outcomes of interest…

General Economics · Economics 2020-05-28 Curtis Atkisson , Piotr J. Górski , Matthew O. Jackson , Janusz A. Hołyst , Raissa M. D'Souza

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…

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A social-ecological network is a formal representation of a corresponding social-ecological system, and encodes a relation within a given system as an interaction. Conventionally, such networks have been defined as encoding and representing…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Sudeepto Bhattacharya

Complex systems are characterized by multiple spatial and temporal scales. A natural framework to capture their multiscale nature is that of multilayer networks, where different layers represent distinct physical processes that often…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-29 Giorgio Nicoletti , Daniel Maria Busiello

Complex networks are frequently employed to model physical or virtual complex systems. When certain entities exist across multiple systems simultaneously, unveiling their corresponding relationships across the networks becomes crucial. This…

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In most natural and engineered systems, a set of entities interact with each other in complicated patterns that can encompass multiple types of relationships, change in time, and include other types of complications. Such systems include…

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Theoretical and computational frameworks of modern science are dominated by binary structures. This binary bias, seen in the ubiquity of pair-wise networks and formal operations of two arguments in mathematical models, limits our capacity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-19 Carlos Zapata-Carratalá , Maximilian Schich , Taliesin Beynon , Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

Multilayer networks have permeated all the sciences as a powerful mathematical abstraction for interdependent heterogenous complex systems such as multimodal brain connectomes, transportation, ecological systems, and scientific…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Elkaïoum M. Moutuou , Obaï B. K. Ali , Habib Benali

An ecological network is a formal representation of a specific type of interaction in a corresponding ecosystem. Such networks have traditionally been modelled as encoding exclusively pairwise interactions among the fundamental units of…

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