English
Related papers

Related papers: How synchronized human networks escape local minim…

200 papers

The study of dynamical systems on networks, describing complex interactive processes, provides insight into how network structure affects global behaviour. Yet many methods for network dynamics fail to cope with large or partially-known…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-05 Neave O'Clery , Ye Yuan , Guy-Bart Stan , Mauricio Barahona

Complex networks have recently attracted much interest due to their prevalence in nature and our daily lives [1, 2]. A critical property of a network is its resilience to random breakdown and failure [3-6], typically studied as a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-08 James P. Bagrow , Sune Lehmann , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Generative mechanisms which lead to empirically observed structure of networked systems from diverse fields like biology, technology and social sciences form a very important part of study of complex networks. The structure of many…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-03 Snehal M. Shekatkar , G. Ambika

The ability to control network dynamics is essential for ensuring desirable functionality of many technological, biological, and social systems. Such systems often consist of a large number of network elements, and controlling large-scale…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-15 Chao Duan , Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

We study the synchronization of coupled dynamical systems on a variety of networks. The dynamics is governed by a local nonlinear map or flow for each node of the network and couplings connecting different nodes via the links of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. E. Amritkar , Sarika Jalan

Oscillatory dynamics are ubiquitous in biological networks. Possible sources of oscillations are well understood in low-dimensional systems, but have not been fully explored in high-dimensional networks. Here we study large networks…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-21 Célian Bimbard , Erwan Ledoux , Srdjan Ostojic

Social networks profoundly influence how humans form opinions, exchange information, and organize collectively. As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded into social and professional environments, it is critical to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Marios Papachristou , Yuan Yuan

We investigate the synchronization features of a network of spiking neurons under a distance-dependent coupling following a power-law model. The interplay between topology and coupling strength leads to the existence of different…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-11 R. C. Budzinski , K. L. Rossi , B. R. R. Boaretto , T. L. Prado , S. R. Lopes

We studied the effects of spatial configuration on collective dynamics in a nearest-neighbour and diffusively coupled lattice of heterogeneous nodes. The networks contained nodes from two populations, which differed in their intrinsic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-20 Daniel Galvis , David J. Hodson , Kyle C. A. Wedgwood

In many real-world networks the ability to synchronize is a key property for its performance. Examples include power-grid, sensor, and neuron networks as well as consensus formation. Recent work on undirected networks with diffusive…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-08-21 Jan Philipp Pade , Tiago Pereira

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

Among all characteristics exhibited by natural and man-made networks the small-world phenomenon is surely the most relevant and popular. But despite its significance, a reliable and comparable quantification of the question `how small is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-27 Gorka Zamora-López , Romain Brasselet

Rapid expansions of their size and frequent changes of their topology make it difficult to observe and analyze complex networks. We explore the properties of the Hankel matrix and propose an algorithm for calculating the final…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-24 Hai-Tao Zhang , Ming-Can Fan , Yue Wu , Jianxi Gao , H. Eugene Stanley , Tao Zhou , Ye Yuan

We evolve network topology of an asymmetrically connected threshold network by a simple local rewiring rule: quiet nodes grow links, active nodes lose links. This leads to convergence of the average connectivity of the network towards the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Bornholdt , Thimo Rohlf

To understand how certain dynamical behaviors can or cannot persist as the underlying network grows is a problem of increasing importance in complex dynamical systems as well as sustainability science and engineering. We address the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-07 Yafeng Wang , Huawei Fan , Ying-Cheng Lai , Xingang Wang

Real-world networks such as the Internet and WWW have many common traits. Until now, hundreds of models were proposed to characterize these traits for understanding the networks. Because different models used very different mechanisms, it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Bojin Zheng , Hongrun Wu , Li Kuang , Jun Qin , Wenhua Du , Jianmin Wang , Deyi Li

Randomly connected neural networks have long served as a theoretical tool for studying collective dynamics in neural populations, yet quantitative comparisons to experiments remain limited. Recent technological advances have made it…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-27 Zehui Zhao , Michael J Pasek , Ilya M Nemenman

Many natural and artificial networks evolve in time. Nodes and connections appear and disappear at various timescales, and their dynamics has profound consequences for any processes in which they are involved. The first empirical analysis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-21 Michele Starnini , Andrea Baronchelli , Alain Barrat , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

Meta-population networks are effective tools for capturing population movement across distinct regions, but the assumption of well-mixed regions fails to capture the reality of population higher-order interactions. As a multidimensional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-18 Yanyi Nie , Yanbing Liu , Qixuan Cao , Tao Lin , Wei Wang

In many real-world systems, partial synchronization is the dominant dynamical regime and, in systems such as the brain, is often accompanied by collective oscillations in which multiple overlapping modes interact to produce complex rhythmic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-03 Ali Seif , Mina Zarei