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Community structure in networks is often a consequence of homophily, or assortative mixing, based on some attribute of the vertices. For example, researchers may be grouped into communities corresponding to their research topic. This is…

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The promise of equal opportunity is a cornerstone of modern societies, yet upward economic mobility remains out of reach for many. Using a decade of population-scale social network data from the Netherlands, covering over a billion family,…

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People are observed to assortatively connect on a set of traits. This phenomenon, termed assortative mixing or sometimes homophily, can be quantified through assortativity coefficient in social networks. Uncovering the exact causes of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-21 Sanja Šćepanović , Igor Mishkovski , Bruno Gonçalves , Nguyen Trung Hieu , Pan Hui

Human mobility is a fundamental process underpinning socioeconomic life and urban structure. Classic theories, such as egocentric activity spaces and central place theory, provide crucial insights into specific facets of movement, like…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Lu Zhong , Lei Dong , Qi Wang , Chaoming Song , Jianxi Gao

By applying network analysis techniques to large input-output system, we identify key sectors in the local/regional economy. We overcome the limitations of traditional measures of centrality by using random-walk based measures, as an…

General Economics · Economics 2022-09-30 Fernando DePaolis , Phil Murphy , M. Clara DePaolis Kaluza

Transport is an important function in many network systems and understanding its behavior on biological, social, and technological networks is crucial for a wide range of applications. However, it is a property that is not well-understood…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Lazaros K. Gallos , Chaoming Song , Shlomo Havlin , Hernan A. Makse

Many topological and dynamical properties of complex networks are defined by assuming that most of the transport on the network flows along the shortest paths. However, there are different scenarios in which non-shortest paths are used to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-16 Ernesto Estrada , Naomichi Hatano

Urban mobility plays a crucial role in the functioning of cities, influencing economic activity, accessibility, and quality of life. However, the effectiveness of analytical models in understanding urban mobility patterns can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-08 Hoai Nguyen Huynh

Demographic heterogeneity is often studied through the geographical lens. Therefore it is considered at a predetermined spatial resolution, which is a suitable choice to understand scalefull phenomena. Spatial autocorrelation indices are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-01 Aleksejus Kononovicius , Justas Kvedaravicius

We connect several notions relating the structural and dynamical properties of a graph. Among them are the topological entropy coming from the vertex shift, which is related to the spectral radius of the graph's adjacency matrix, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Fatihcan M. Atay , Türker Bıyıkoğlu

This paper is a step towards a systematic theory of the transitivity (clustering) phenomenon in random networks. A static framework is used, with adjacency matrix playing the role of the dynamical variable. Hence, our model is a matrix…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Burda , J. Jurkiewicz , A. Krzywicki

The analysis of GPS trajectories is a well-studied problem in Urban Computing and has been used to track people. Analyzing people mobility and identifying the transportation mode used by them is essential for cities that want to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 I. Cardoso-Pereira , J. B. Borges , P. H. Barros , A. F. Loureiro , O. A. Rosso , H. S. Ramos

Networks have in recent years emerged as an invaluable tool for describing and quantifying complex systems in many branches of science. Recent studies suggest that networks often exhibit hierarchical organization, where vertices divide into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-11-05 Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , M. E. J. Newman

Rural and urban areas exhibit distinct mobility patterns, yet a systematic understanding of how these trends differ across regions and contexts remains underexplored. By using origin-destination matrices from Location-Based Services data in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-04 Nandini Iyer , Massimiliano Luca , Riccardo Di Clemente

With the widespread use of mobile computing devices in contemporary society, our trajectories in the physical space and virtual world are increasingly closely connected. Using the anonymous smartphone data of $1 \times 10^5$ users in 30…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Cheng-Jun Wang , Lingfei Wu

We present a generative model of human mobility in which trajectories arise as realizations of a prescribed, time-dependent Markov dynamics defined on a spatial interaction network. The model constructs a hierarchical routing structure with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-12 David A. Meyer , Asif Shakeel

This article reviews and evaluates models of network evolution based on the notion of structural diversity. We show that diversity is an underlying theme of three principles of network evolution: the preferential attachment model,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jérôme Kunegis

The accelerated growth of mobile trajectories in location-based services brings valuable data resources to understand users' moving behaviors. Apart from recording the trajectory data, another major characteristic of these location-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Cheng Yang , Maosong Sun , Wayne Xin Zhao , Zhiyuan Liu , Edward Y. Chang

The relationships between diversity, productivity and scale determine much of the structure and robustness of complex biological and social systems. While arguments for the link between specialization and productivity are common, diversity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-24 Luís M. A. Bettencourt , Horacio Samaniego , HyeJin Youn

A fundamental problem in the study of complex networks is to provide quantitative measures of correlation and information flow between different parts of a system. To this end, several notions of communicability have been introduced and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-08 Ernesto Estrada , Naomichi Hatano , Michele Benzi