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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

A reflection of our ultimate understanding of a complex system is our ability to control its behavior. Typically, control has multiple prerequisites: It requires an accurate map of the network that governs the interactions between the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Yang-Yu Liu , Albert-Laszló Barabási

Network systems consist of subsystems and their interconnections, and provide a powerful framework for analysis, modeling and control of complex systems. However, subsystems may have high-dimensional dynamics, and the amount and nature of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Xiaodong Cheng , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

Biological systems are generally complicated and/or complex. In the former approach, one sets up a model with a large number of parameters to describe the system in detail. The latter approach focuses on understanding the universal aspects…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Kunihiko Kaneko

With the advance of efficient analytical methods for sensitivity analysis ofprobabilistic networks, the interest in the sensitivities revealed by real-life networks is rekindled. As the amount of data resulting from a sensitivity analysis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Linda C. van der Gaag , Silja Renooij

This paper focuses on the identification of dynamical systems with tailor-made model structures, where neural networks are used to approximate uncertain components and domain knowledge is retained, if available. These model structures are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Marco Forgione , Dario Piga

Training a multimodal network is challenging and it requires complex architectures to achieve reasonable performance. We show that one reason for this phenomena is the difference between the convergence rate of various modalities. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Aya Abdelsalam Ismail , Mahmudul Hasan , Faisal Ishtiaq

Complex networks are frequently employed to model physical or virtual complex systems. When certain entities exist across multiple systems simultaneously, unveiling their corresponding relationships across the networks becomes crucial. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-16 Rui Tang , Ziyun Yong , Shuyu Jiang , Xingshu Chen , Yaofang Liu , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Gui-Quan Sun , Wei Wang

Before we combine actions and probabilities two very obvious questions should be asked. Firstly, what does "the probability of an action" mean? Secondly, how does probability interact with nondeterminism? Neither question has a single…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-06-22 Steve Reeves , David Streader

We study rare events in systems of diffusive fields driven out of equilibrium by the boundaries. We present a numerical technique and use it to calculate the probabilities of rare events in one and two dimensions. Using this technique, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-10 Guy Bunin , Yariv Kafri , Daniel Podolsky

We present a complexity reduction algorithm for a family of parameter-dependent linear systems when the system parameters belong to a compact semi-algebraic set. This algorithm potentially describes the underlying dynamical system with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Farhad Farokhi , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

Identifying and understanding modular organizations is centrally important in the study of complex systems. Several approaches to this problem have been advanced, many framed in information-theoretic terms. Our treatment starts from the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-01-19 Artemy Kolchinsky , Luis M. Rocha

It is a challenge to predict the response of a large, complex system to a perturbation. Recent attempts to predict the behaviour of food webs have revealed that the effort needed to understand a system grows quickly with its complexity,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-11-07 Helge Aufderheide , Lars Rudolf , Thilo Gross , Kevin D. Lafferty

The ubiquity of modular structure in real-world complex networks is being the focus of attention in many trials to understand the interplay between network topology and functionality. The best approaches to the identification of modular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-07-30 A. Arenas , J. Duch , A. Fernandez , S. Gomez

Complex networks are ubiquitous to several Computer Science domains. Centrality measures are an important analysis mechanism to uncover vital elements of complex networks. However, these metrics have high computational costs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Felipe Grando , Lisando Z. Granville , Luis C. Lamb

What fascinates us about animal behavior is its richness and complexity, but understanding behavior and its neural basis requires a simpler description. Traditionally, simplification has been imposed by training animals to engage in a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-13 Greg J. Stephens , Leslie C. Osborne , William Bialek

The analysis of industrial processes, modelled as descriptor systems, is often computationally hard due to the presence of both algebraic couplings and difference equations of high order. In this paper, we introduce a control refinement…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Fei Chen , Sofie Haesaert , Alessandro Abate , Siep Weiland

This work describes how the formalization of complex network concepts in terms of discrete mathematics, especially mathematical morphology, allows a series of generalizations and important results ranging from new measurements of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-19 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Luis Enrique C. da Rocha

Large-scale network systems describe a wide class of complex dynamical systems composed of many interacting subsystems. A large number of subsystems and their high-dimensional dynamics often result in highly complex topology and dynamics,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Xiaodong Cheng , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen , Harry L. Trentelman

The aim of this paper is to propose an alternative behavioural definition of computation (and of a computer) based simply on whether a system is capable of reacting to the environment-the input-as reflected in a measure of programmability.…

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