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Identifying important actors (or nodes) in a two-mode network often remains a crucial challenge in mining, analyzing, and interpreting real-world networks. While traditional bipartite centrality indices are often used to recognize key nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Mohamed-Hamza Ibrahim , Rokia Missaoui , Jean Vaillancourt

Random graphs have played an instrumental role in modelling real-world networks arising from the internet topology, social networks, or even protein-interaction networks within cells. Percolation, on the other hand, has been the fundamental…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Souvik Dhara

We describe the critical behavior of weak multiplex percolation, a generalization of percolation to multiplex or interdependent networks. A node can determine its active or inactive status simply by referencing neighboring nodes. This is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-09 G. J. Baxter , R. A. da Costa , S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

We compare phase transition and critical phenomena of bond percolation on Euclidean lattices, nonamenable graphs, and complex networks. On a Euclidean lattice, percolation shows a phase transition between the nonpercolating phase and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-20 Takehisa Hasegawa , Tomoaki Nogawa , Koji Nemoto

Numerous centrality measures have been proposed to evaluate the importance of nodes in networks, yet comparative analyses of these measures remain limited. Based on 80 real-world networks, we conducted an empirical analysis of 16…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-08-14 Yilin Bi , Xinshan Jiao , Tao Zhou

In transportation, communication, social and other real complex networks, some critical edges act a pivotal part in controlling the flow of information and maintaining the integrity of the structure. Due to the importance of critical edges…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-06 En-Yu Yu , Yan Fu , Jun-Lin Zhou , Duan-Bing Chen

Centrality metrics play a crucial role in network analysis, while the choice of specific measures significantly influences the accuracy of conclusions as each measure represents a unique concept of node importance. Among over 400 proposed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-06 Pavel Chebotarev , Dmitry Gubanov

Interconnected networks have been shown to be much more vulnerable to random and targeted failures than isolated ones, raising several interesting questions regarding the identification and mitigation of their risk. The paradigm to address…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Christian M. Schneider , Nuno A. M. Araújo , Hans J. Herrmann

In many real, directed networks, the strongly connected component of nodes which are mutually reachable is very small. This does not fit with current theory, based on random graphs, according to which strong connectivity depends on mean…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-04-12 Niall Rodgers , Peter Tino , Samuel Johnson

We consider the problem of distinguishing classical (Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi) percolation from explosive (Achlioptas) percolation, under noise. A statistical model of percolation is constructed allowing for the birth and death of edges as well…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-11 Wes Viles , Cedric E. Ginestet , Ariana Tang , Mark A. Kramer , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Centrality is a key property of complex networks that influences the behavior of dynamical processes, like synchronization and epidemic spreading, and can bring important information about the organization of complex systems, like our brain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-24 Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues

Several recent studies of complex networks have suggested algorithms for locating network communities, also called modules or clusters, which are mostly defined as groups of nodes with dense internal connections. Along with the rapid…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-09-04 Peter Pollner , Gergely Palla , Daniel Abel , Andras Vicsek , Illes J. Farkas , Imre Derenyi , Tamas Vicsek

Problems in distributed system security often map naturally to graphs. The concept of centrality assesses the importance of nodes in a graph. It is used in various applications. Cooperative game theory has also been used to create nuanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Iain Burge , Michel Barbeau , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

It has been recently shown that the percolation transition is discontinuous in Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi networks and square lattices in two dimensions under the Achlioptas Process (AP). Here, we show that when the structure is highly heterogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Y. S. Cho , J. S. Kim , J. Park , B. Kahng , D. Kim

Link prediction is one of the most important and challenging tasks in complex network analysis, which aims to predict the likelihood of the existence of missing links based on the known information in the network. As critical topological…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhu Junxi , Dai Fang , Zhao Fengqun , Guo Wenyan

It is widely believed that certain simple modifications of the random graph process lead to discontinuous phase transitions. In particular, starting with the empty graph on $n$ vertices, suppose that at each step two pairs of vertices are…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-22 Oliver Riordan , Lutz Warnke

Hypergraphs that can depict interactions beyond pairwise edges have emerged as an appropriate representation for modeling polyadic relations in complex systems. With the recent surge of interest in researching hypergraphs, the centrality…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-10 Xiao-Wen Xie , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Zi-Ke Zhang , Chuang Liu

Bootstrap percolation is an often used model to study the spread of diseases, rumors, and information on sparse random graphs. The percolation process demonstrates a critical value such that the graph is either almost completely affected or…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-07 Peter Ballen , Sudipto Guha

The integrity and functionality of many real-world complex systems hinge on a small set of pivotal nodes, or influencers. In different contexts, these influencers are defined as either structurally important nodes that maintain the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-30 Sen Pei , Jiannan Wang , Flaviano Morone , Hernán A Makse

Understanding how network structure constrains and enables information processing is a central problem in the statistical mechanics of interacting systems. Here we study random networks across the structural percolation transition and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-14 Galen J. Wilkerson