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A network as a substrate for dynamic processes may have its own dynamics. We propose a model for networks which evolve together with diffusing particles through a coupled dynamics, and investigate emerging structural property. The model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sang-Woo Kim , Jae Dong Noh

Flow networks are essential for both living organisms and enginneered systems. These networks often present complex dynamics controlled, at least in part, by their topology. Previous works have shown that topologically complex networks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-24 Miguel Ruiz-Garcia , Eleni Katifori

Real-world networks are neither regular nor random, a fact elegantly explained by mechanisms such as the Watts-Strogatz or the Barabasi-Albert models, among others. Both mechanisms naturally create shortcuts and hubs, which while enhancing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-03 Ernesto Estrada , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Lucas Lacasa

This study provides a foundational theoretical investigation into the mathematical existence and asymptotic properties of Ulanowicz's structural resilience. While ecological evidence suggests that sustainable systems gravitate toward an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-22 Si-Yao Wei , Wei-Xing Zhou

Being fundamentally a non-equilibrium process, synchronization comes with unavoidable energy costs and has to be maintained under the constraint of limited resources. Such resource constraints are often reflected as a finite coupling budget…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-02 Yuanzhao Zhang , Steven H. Strogatz

We study a self-consistent approach to introduce higher-order effects in a branching process model of complex contagion on clustered networks. Branching processes operate over an infinite population such that they never circle back and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-20 Leah A. Keating , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

We show that abrupt structural transitions can arise in functionally optimal networks, driven by small changes in the level of transport congestion. Our results offer an explanation as to why so many diverse species of network structure…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy C. Jarrett , Douglas J. Ashton , Mark Fricker , Neil F. Johnson

The effects of link rewiring are considered for the class of directed networks where each node has the same fixed out-degree. We model a network generated by three mechanisms that are present in various networked systems; growth, global…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 Ewan R. Colman , Geoff J. Rodgers

Circle maps frequently arise in mathematical models of physical or biological systems. Motivated by Cherry flows and `threshold' systems such as integrate and fire neuronal models, models of cardiac arrhythmias, and models of sleep/wake…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Gianne Derks , Paul A. Glendinning , Anne C. Skeldon

Physical Flow Networks are different infrastructure networks that allow the flow of physical commodities through edges between its constituent nodes. These include power grid, natural gas transmission network, water pipelines etc. In such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Deepjyoti Deka , Scott Backhaus , Michael Chertkov

Today's economy, production activity, and our life are sustained by social and technological network infrastructures, while new threats of network attacks by destructing loops have been found recently in network science. We inversely take…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-08 Yukio Hayashi

If we add links to a network at random, a critical threshold can be crossed where a giant connected component forms. Conversely, if links or nodes are removed at random, the giant component shrinks and eventually breaks. In this paper, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-07 Laura Barth , Thilo Gross

Modular structure is ubiquitous among complex networks. We note that most such systems are subject to multiple structural and functional constraints, e.g., minimizing the average path length and the total number of links, while maximizing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-11-05 Raj Kumar Pan , Sitabhra Sinha

Growing synthetic networks that follow power law distributions of a node's degree often involves adding one node at a time. Each node is added to the network with a fixed amount of edges and those edges are frozen for all future time steps.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-27 Justin Downes

Networks are important representations in computer science to communicate structural aspects of a given system of interacting components. The evolution of a network has several topological properties that can provide us information on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Joao Pita Costa , Tihana Galinac Grbac

The co-evolution between network structure and functional performance is a fundamental and challenging problem whose complexity emerges from the intrinsic interdependent nature of structure and function. Within this context, we investigate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Daniel R. Figueiredo , Michele Garetto

This paper investigates the endogenous formation of supply chains and its consequences for disruption propagation. In production networks where upstream risk is highly correlated and supplier relationships are not observable, the marginal…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-05-24 Andrea Titton

The organization of interactions in complex systems can be described by networks connecting different units. These graphs are useful representations of the local and global complexity of the underlying systems. The origin of their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-30 Luís F Seoane , Ricard Solé

Reliable functioning of supply and transport networks fundamentally support many non-equilibrium dynamical systems, from biological organisms and ecosystems to human-made water, gas, heat, electricity and traffic networks. Strengthening an…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-05-31 Debsankha Manik , Dirk Witthaut , Marc Timme

We introduce evolving networks where new vertices preferentially connect to the more central parts of a network. This makes such networks compact. Finite networks grown under the preferential compactness mechanism have complex…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Alava , S. N. Dorogovtsev