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Threshold models try to explain the consequences of social influence like the spread of fads and opinions. Along with models of epidemics, they constitute a major theoretical framework of social spreading processes. In threshold models on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-27 Fariba Karimi , Petter Holme

Individuals interact and cooperate in structured systems. Many studies represent this structure using static networks, where each link represents a permanent connection between two nodes. However, real interactions are generally not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-23 Xiaochen Wang , Lei Zhou , Alex McAvoy , Zhenglong Tian , Aming Li

Virtually all real-world networks are dynamical entities. In social networks, the propensity of nodes to engage in social interactions (activity) and their chances to be selected by active nodes (attractiveness) are heterogeneously…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-13 Laura Alessandretti , Kaiyuan Sun , Andrea Baronchelli , Nicola Perra

Randomly-assembled dynamical systems are theoretically predicted to be unstable upon crossing a critical threshold of complexity, as first shown by May. Yet, empirical complex systems exhibit remarkable stability, indicating the presence of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 Francesco Ferraro , Christian Grilletta , Amos Maritan , Samir Suweis , Sandro Azaele

Numerous complex systems, such as those arisen in ecological networks, genomic contact networks, and social networks, exhibit higher-order and time-varying characteristics, which can be effectively modeled using temporal hypergraphs.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Anqi Dong , Xin Mao , Can Chen

Understanding the dynamics of spatially extended systems represents a challenge in diverse scientific disciplines, ranging from physics and mathematics to the earth and climate sciences or the neurosciences. This challenge has stimulated…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-08-06 S. Bialonski

Human dynamical social networks encode information and are highly adaptive. To characterize the information encoded in the fast dynamics of social interactions, here we introduce the entropy of dynamical social networks. By analysing a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-01-17 Kun Zhao , Márton Karsai , Ginestra Bianconi

In this paper I introduce a framework for modeling temporal communication networks and dynamical processes unfolding on such networks. The framework originates from the realization that there is a meaningful division of temporal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-24 Sune Lehmann

We study the transitions to spatio-temporal intermittency in networks of randomly coupled Chate-Manneville maps. The relevant paprameters are the network connectivity, coupling strength, and the local parameter of the map. We show that the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Volchenkov , S. Sequeira , Ph. Blanchard

In this paper we develop conditions for various types of stability in social networks governed by Imitation of Success principle. Considering so-called Prisoner's Dilemma as the base of node-to-node game in the network we obtain well-known…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Aleksey Ogulenko

How do networks of relationships evolve over time? We analyse a dataset tracking the social interactions of 900 individuals over four years. Despite continuous shifts in individual relationships, the macroscopic structural properties of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-04 Miguel A. González-Casado , Andreia Sofia Teixeira , Angel Sánchez

Proximity networks are time-varying graphs representing the closeness among humans moving in a physical space. Their properties have been extensively studied in the past decade as they critically affect the behavior of spreading phenomena…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-28 Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Marco Antonio Rodríguez Flores

Characterizing the structural properties of neural networks is crucial yet poorly understood, and there are no well-established similarity measures between networks. In this work, we observe that neural networks can be represented as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 David Pérez-Fernández , Asier Gutiérrez-Fandiño , Jordi Armengol-Estapé , Marta Villegas

To quantify the fundamental evolution of time-varying networks, and detect abnormal behavior, one needs a notion of temporal difference that captures significant organizational changes between two successive instants. In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Nathan D Monnig , Francois G Meyer

Given a dynamic network, where edges appear and disappear over time, we are interested in finding sets of edges that have similar temporal behavior and form a dense subgraph. Formally, we define the problem as the enumeration of the maximal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Giulia Preti , Polina Rozenshtein , Aristides Gionis , Yannis Velegrakis

Complexity of dynamical networks can arise not only from the complexity of the topological structure but also from the time evolution of the topology. In this paper, we study the synchronous motion of coupled maps in time-varying complex…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-12-16 Wenlian Lu , Fatihcan M. Atay , Jürgen Jost

In this work we study the topological properties of temporal hypergraphs. Hypergraphs provide a higher dimensional generalization of a graph that is capable of capturing multi-way connections. As such, they have become an integral part of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Audun Myers , Cliff Joslyn , Bill Kay , Emilie Purvine , Gregory Roek , Madelyn Shapiro

Even though the concept of tie strength is central in social network analysis, it is difficult to quantify how strong social ties are. One typical way of estimating tie strength in data-driven studies has been to simply count the total…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-29 Javier Ureña-Carrion , Jari Saramäki , Mikko Kivelä

In this paper, we extend the classical Color Refinement algorithm for static networks to temporal (undirected and directed) networks. This enables us to design an algorithm to sample synthetic networks that preserves the $d$-hop…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Felix I. Stamm , Mehdi Naima , Michael T. Schaub

Dynamic temporal graphs represent evolving relations between entities, e.g. interactions between social network users or infection spreading. We propose an extension of graph echo state networks for the efficient processing of dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Domenico Tortorella , Alessio Micheli