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Complex networks datasets often come with the problem of missing information: interactions data that have not been measured or discovered, may be affected by errors, or are simply hidden because of privacy issues. This Element provides an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-11 Giulio Cimini , Rossana Mastrandrea , Tiziano Squartini

Surrogate networks can constitute suitable replacements for real networks, in particular to study dynamical processes on networks, when only incomplete or limited datasets are available. As empirical datasets most often present complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-17 Giulia Cencetti , Alain Barrat

Network renormalization has traditionally relied on spatial adjacency-grouping nearby nodes together, but this approach fails to capture the dynamical correlations that govern system-wide behavior in scale-free networks. We present a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-21 Cook Hyun Kim , B. Kahng

Network scientists often use complex dynamic processes to describe network contagions, but tools for fitting contagion models typically assume simple dynamics. Here, we address this gap by developing a nonparametric method to reconstruct a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicholas W. Landry , William Thompson , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Jean-Gabriel Young

Many types of pairwise interaction take the form of a fixed set of nodes with edges that appear and disappear over time. In the case of discrete-time evolution, the resulting evolving network may be represented by a time-ordered sequence of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Caterina Fenu , Desmond J. Higham

Systems of dynamical interactions between competing species can be used to model many complex systems, and can be mathematically described by {\em random} networks. Understanding how patterns of activity arise in such systems is important…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-21 Nick McCullen , Thomas Wagenknecht

In this paper, we study detection and fast reconstruction of the celebrated Watts-Strogatz (WS) small-world random graph model \citep{watts1998collective} which aims to describe real-world complex networks that exhibit both high clustering…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-27 T. Tony Cai , Tengyuan Liang , Alexander Rakhlin

Temporal network data are increasingly available in various domains, and often represent highly complex systems with intricate structural and temporal evolutions. Due to the difficulty of processing such complex data, it may be useful to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-08 Chanon Thongprayoon , Lorenzo Livi , Naoki Masuda

Biological neural networks are notoriously hard to model due to their stochastic behavior and high dimensionality. We tackle this problem by constructing a dynamical model of both the expectations and covariances of the fractions of active…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-25 Vincent Painchaud , Patrick Desrosiers , Nicolas Doyon

Time-limited states characterise many dynamical processes on networks: disease infected individuals recover after some time, people forget news spreading on social networks, or passengers may not wait forever for a connection. These…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-13 Arash Badie-Modiri , Márton Karsai , Mikko Kivelä

The evolution processes of complex systems carry key information in the systems' functional properties. Applying machine learning algorithms, we demonstrate that the historical formation process of various networked complex systems can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-25 Junya Wang , Yi-Jiao Zhang , Cong Xu , Jiaze Li , Jiachen Sun , Jiarong Xie , Ling Feng , Tianshou Zhou , Yanqing Hu

Heterogeneous porous materials play a crucial role in various engineering systems. Microstructure characterization and reconstruction provide effective means for modeling these materials, which are critical for conducting physical property…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Zhenchuan Ma , Qizhi Teng , Pengcheng Yan , Lindong Li , Kirill M. Gerke , Marina V. Karsanina , Xiaohai He

Dynamic network reconstruction has been shown to be challenging due to the requirements on sparse network structures and network identifiability. The direct parametric method (e.g., using ARX models) requires a large amount of parameters in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Zuogong Yue , Johan Thunberg , Lennart Ljung , Jorge Goncalves

Many time-evolving systems in nature, society and technology leave traces of the interactions within them. These interactions form temporal networks that reflect the states of the systems. In this work, we pursue a coarse-grained…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Naoki Masuda , Petter Holme

Temporal networks are commonly used to represent dynamical complex systems like social networks, simultaneous firing of neurons, human mobility or public transportation. Their dynamics may evolve on multiple time scales characterising for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-27 Elsa Andres , Alain Barrat , Márton Karsai

Dynamical networks are powerful tools for modeling a broad range of complex systems, including financial markets, brains, and ecosystems. They encode how the basic elements (nodes) of these systems interact altogether (via links) and evolve…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-13 Edward Laurence , Nicolas Doyon , Louis J Dubé , Patrick Desrosiers

Many real-world complex systems, such as epidemic spreading networks and ecosystems, can be modeled as networked dynamical systems that produce multivariate time series. Learning the intrinsic dynamics from observational data is pivotal for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yanna Ding , Zijie Huang , Malik Magdon-Ismail , Jianxi Gao

Across scientific disciplines, thresholded pairwise measures of statistical dependence between time series are taken as proxies for the interactions between the dynamical units of a network. Yet such correlation measures often fail to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-02-07 Benedict J. Lünsmann , Christoph Kirst , Marc Timme

Real-world complex systems such as ecological communities and neuron networks are essential parts of our everyday lives. These systems are composed of units which interact through intricate networks. The ability to predict sudden changes in…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-07-05 Deniz Eroglu , Matteo Tanzi , Sebastian van Strien , Tiago Pereira

Human social interactions tend to vary in intensity over time, whether they are in person or online. Variable rates of interaction in structured populations can be described by networks with the time-varying activity of links and nodes. One…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-17 Anzhi Sheng , Qi Su , Aming Li , Long Wang , Joshua B. Plotkin