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Navigation process is studied on a variant of the Watts-Strogatz small world network model embedded on a square lattice. With probability $p$, each vertex sends out a long range link, and the probability of the other end of this link…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Jian-Zhen Chen , Wei Liu , Jian-Yang Zhu

Small-world networks (SWN) are found to be closer to the real social systems than both regular and random lattices. Then, a model for the evolution of economic systems is generalized to SWN. The Sznajd model for the two-state opinion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. S. Elgazzar

We study the small-world networks recently introduced by Watts and Strogatz [Nature {\bf 393}, 440 (1998)], using analytical as well as numerical tools. We characterize the geometrical properties resulting from the coexistence of a local…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Barrat , M. Weigt

Networks in nature are often formed within a spatial domain in a dynamical manner, gaining links and nodes as they develop over time. We propose a class of spatially-based growing network models and investigate the relationship between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-12-30 Ari Zitin , Alex Gorowora , Shane Squires , Mark Herrera , Thomas M. Antonsen , Michelle Girvan , Edward Ott

We analyse the so-called small-world network model (originally devised by Strogatz and Watts), treating it, among other things, as a case study of non-linear coupled difference or differential equations. We derive a system of evolution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Andreas Lochmann , Manfred Requardt

The small-world network model is a simple model of the structure of social networks, which simultaneously possesses characteristics of both regular lattices and random graphs. The model consists of a one-dimensional lattice with a low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. J. Newman , C. Moore , D. J. Watts

The small-world networks recently introduced by Watts and Strogatz [Nature 393, 440 (1998)] has attracted much interests in studying the interesting properties of the networks without time-delay. However, a signal or influence travelling on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-03-26 Xin-She Yang

A model for the spread of an infection is analyzed for different population structures. The interactions within the population are described by small world networks, ranging from ordered lattices to random graphs. For the more ordered…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-10-31 Marcelo Kuperman , Guillermo Abramson

We investigate several geometric models of network which simultaneously have some nice global properties, that the small diameter property, the small-community phenomenon, which is defined to capture the common experience that (almost)…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-07-29 Angsheng Li , Pan Peng

A large computer program is typically divided into many hundreds or even thousands of smaller units, whose logical connections define a network in a natural way. This network reflects the internal structure of the program, and defines the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessandro P. S. de Moura , Ying-Cheng Lai , Adilson E. Motter

The understanding of long-distance relations between seismic activities has for long been of interest to seismologists and geologists. In this paper we have used data from the world-wide earthquake catalog for the period between 1972 and…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Douglas S. R. Ferreira , Andrés Papa , Ronaldo Menezes

Small-world networks, known for high local clustering and short path lengths, are a fundamental structure in many real-world systems, including social, biological, and technological networks. We apply the theory of (marked) local…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Yeganeh Alimohammadi , Senem Işık , Amin Saberi

In this Letter we investigate networks that have been optimized to realize a trade-off between enhanced synchronization and cost of wire to connect the nodes in space. Analyzing the evolved arrangement of nodes in space and their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Brede

Using both numerical simulations and scaling arguments, we study the behavior of a random walker on a one-dimensional small-world network. For the properties we study, we find that the random walk obeys a characteristic scaling form. These…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Almaas , R. V. Kulkarni , D. Stroud

The small-world phenomenon in complex networks has been identified as being due to the presence of long-range links, i.e., links connecting nodes that would otherwise be separated by a long node-to-node distance. We find, surprisingly, that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Adilson E. Motter , Takashi Nishikawa , Ying-Cheng Lai

Small-world networks are networks in which the graphical diameter of the network is as small as the diameter of random graphs but whose nodes are highly clustered when compared with the ones in a random graph. Examples of small-world…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hazer Inaltekin , Mung Chiang , Harold Vincent Poor

We study two kinds of weighted networks, weighted small-world (WSW) and weighted scale-free (WSF). The weight $w_{ij}$ of a link between nodes $i$ and $j$ in the network is defined as the product of endpoint node degrees; that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xin-Jian Xu , Zhi-Xi Wu , Ying-Hai Wang

We consider recent reports on small-world topologies of interaction networks derived from the dynamics of spatially extended systems that are investigated in diverse scientific fields such as neurosciences, geophysics, or meteorology. With…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-05-12 Stephan Bialonski , Marie-Therese Horstmann , Klaus Lehnertz

The Watts-Strogatz model (WS) has been demonstrated to effectively describe real-world networks due to its ability to reproduce the small-world properties commonly observed in a variety of systems, including social networks, computer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Joao V. Merenda , Odemir M. Bruno

Many real-world networks have properties of small-world networks, with clustered local neighborhoods and low average-shortest path (ASP). They may also show a scale-free degree distribution, which can be generated by growth and preferential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcus Kaiser , Claus C. Hilgetag