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Reconstructing weighted networks from partial information is necessary in many important circumstances, e.g. for a correct estimation of systemic risk. It has been shown that, in order to achieve an accurate reconstruction, it is crucial to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-07 Tiziano Squartini , Giulio Cimini , Andrea Gabrielli , Diego Garlaschelli

This paper re-examines the concept of node equivalences like structural equivalence or automorphic equivalence, which have originally emerged in social network analysis to characterize the role an actor plays within a social system, but…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Michael Scholkemper , Michael T. Schaub

We investigate how the graph topology influences the robustness to noise in undirected linear consensus networks. We measure the structural robustness by using the smallest possible value of steady state population variance of states under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Yasin Yazicioglu , Waseem Abbas , Mudassir Shabbir

Network node similarity measure has been paid particular attention in the field of statistical physics. In this paper, we utilize the concept of information and information loss to measure the node similarity. The whole model is based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-19 Yongli Li , Peng Luo , Chong Wu

How complex of the complex networks has attracted many researchers to explore it. The entropy is an useful method to describe the degree of the $complex$ of the complex networks. In this paper, a new method which is based on the Tsallis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-29 Qi Zhang , Meizhu Li , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

The position of the nodes within a network topology largely determines the level of their involvement in various networking functions. Yet numerous node centrality indices, proposed to quantify how central individual nodes are in this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-18 George Nomikos , Panagiotis Pantazopoulos , Merkourios Karaliopoulos , Ioannis Stavrakakis

Many community detection algorithms require the introduction of a measure on the set of nodes. Previously, a lot of efforts have been made to find the top-performing measures. In most cases, experiments were conducted on several datasets or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Rinat Aynulin

Barab\'asi-Albert's `Scale Free' model is the starting point for much of the accepted theory of the evolution of real world communication networks. Careful comparison of the theory with a wide range of real world networks, however,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-11 Philip Tee , Ian Wakeman , George Parisis , Jonathan Dawes , István Z. Kiss

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sebastián Brzovic , Cristóbal Rojas , Andrés Abeliuk

Network topology plays a key role in many phenomena, from the spreading of diseases to that of financial crises. Whenever the whole structure of a network is unknown, one must resort to reconstruction methods that identify the least biased…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-09 Rossana Mastrandrea , Tiziano Squartini , Giorgio Fagiolo , Diego Garlaschelli

Generally, networks are classified into two sides of inequality and equality with respect to the number of links at nodes by the types of degree distributions. One side includes many social, technological, and biological networks which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-01 Yukio Hayashi , Taishi Ogawa

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

Degree correlation is an important topological property common to many real-world networks. In this paper, the statistical measures for characterizing the degree correlation in networks are investigated analytically. We give an exact proof…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-03 Ju Xiang , Ke Hu , Tao Hu , Yan Zhang , Jian-Ming Li

Finding graph indices which are unbiased to network size and density is of high importance both within a given field and across fields for enhancing comparability of modern network science studies. The degree variance is an important metric…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Keith M. Smith , Javier Escudero

While most network embedding techniques model the proximity between nodes in a network, recently there has been significant interest in structural embeddings that are based on node equivalences, a notion rooted in sociology: equivalences or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Junchen Jin , Mark Heimann , Di Jin , Danai Koutra

In this paper, we analyze various critical transmitting/sensing ranges for connectivity and coverage in three-dimensional sensor networks. As in other large-scale complex systems, many global parameters of sensor networks undergo phase…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vlady Ravelomanana

Measures of complex network analysis, such as vertex centrality, have the potential to unveil existing network patterns and behaviors. They contribute to the understanding of networks and their components by analyzing their structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Felipe Grando , Diego Noble , Luis C. Lamb

Networks are useful descriptions of the structure of many complex systems. Unsurprisingly, it is thus important to analyze the robustness of networks in many scientific disciplines. In applications in communication, logistics, finance,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-16 Alice C. Schwarze , Jessica Jiang , Jonny Wray , Mason A. Porter

A geometric entropy is defined as the Riemannian volume of the parameter space of a statistical manifold associated with a given network. As such it can be a good candidate for measuring networks complexity. Here we investigate its ability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 D. Felice , R. Franzosi , S. Mancini , M. Pettini