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Foundation models have shown great promise in various fields of study. A potential application of such models is in computer network traffic analysis, where these models can grasp the complexities of network traffic dynamics and adapt to…

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Stream graphs are a very useful mode of representation for temporal network data, whose richness offers a wide range of possible approaches. The various methods aimed at generalising the classical approaches applied to static networks are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mehdi Djellabi , Bertrand Jouve

Pairwise temporal interactions between entities can be represented as temporal networks, which code the propagation of processes such as epidemic spreading or information cascades, evolving on top of them. The largest outcome of these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Rémi Vaudaine , Pierre Borgnat , Paulo Goncalves , Rémi Gribonval , Márton Karsai

We present a thorough inspection of the dynamical behavior of epidemic phenomena in populations with complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns. We show that the growth of the epidemic prevalence is virtually instantaneous in all…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Barthelemy , Alain Barrat , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

In this paper we study the susceptible-infectious (SI) epidemiological model using dynamical graphs. Dynamical structures have been recently applied in many areas including complex systems. Dynamical structures include the mutual…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-10-19 Jose L. Herrera , Gilberto Gonzalez-Parra

The connectivity structure of graphs is typically related to the attributes of the nodes. In social networks for example, the probability of a friendship between two people depends on their attributes, such as their age, address, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Junning Deng , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

Topology identification and inference of processes evolving over graphs arise in timely applications involving brain, transportation, financial, power, as well as social and information networks. This chapter provides an overview of graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ananthram Swami

Networks are fundamental to the study of complex systems, ranging from social contacts, message transactions, to biological regulations and economical networks. In many realistic applications, these networks may vary over time. Modeling and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kun Tu , Jian Li , Don Towsley , Dave Braines , Liam Turner

Identifying the most influential nodes in information networks has been the focus of many research studies. This problem has crucial applications in various contexts, such as controlling the propagation of viruses or rumours in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ahmad Asgharian Rezaei , Justin Munoz , Mahdi Jalili , Hamid Khayyam

Event detection is a critical task for timely decision-making in graph analytics applications. Despite the recent progress towards deep learning on graphs, event detection on dynamic graphs presents particular challenges to existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Mert Kosan , Arlei Silva , Sourav Medya , Brian Uzzi , Ambuj Singh

Causal discovery aims to uncover cause-and-effect relationships encoded in causal graphs by leveraging observational, interventional data, or their combination. The majority of existing causal discovery methods are developed assuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Muhammad Qasim Elahi , Lai Wei , Murat Kocaoglu , Mahsa Ghasemi

Graphs have often been used to answer questions about the interaction between real-world entities by taking advantage of their capacity to represent complex topologies. Complex networks are known to be graphs that capture such non-trivial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Gabriel Spadon , Jose F. Rodrigues-Jr

Multi-strain competition on networks is observed in many contexts, including infectious disease ecology, information dissemination or behavioral adaptation to epidemics. Despite a substantial body of research has been developed considering…

Epidemic models are increasingly used in real-world networks to understand diffusion phenomena (such as the spread of diseases, emotions, innovations, failures) or the transport of information (such as news, memes in social on-line…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-06 Piet Van Mieghem

Network inference is the process of deciding what is the true unknown graph underlying a set of interactions between nodes. There is a vast literature on the subject, but most known methods have an important drawback: the inferred graph is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Effrosyni Papanastasiou , Anastasios Giovanidis

Networks model the architecture backbone of complex systems. The backbone itself can change over time leading to what is called `temporal networks'. Interpreting temporal networks as trajectories in graph space of a latent graph dynamics…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-20 Annalisa Caligiuri , Tobias Galla , Lucas Lacasa

Many data analysis problems rely on dynamic networks, such as social or communication network analyses. Providing a scalable overview of long sequences of such dynamic networks remains challenging due to the underlying large-scale data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Eren Cakmak , Johannes Fuchs , Dominik Jäckle , Tobias Schreck , Ulrik Brandes , Daniel Keim

Graph-theoretic methods have seen wide use throughout the literature on multi-agent control and optimization. When communications are intermittent and unpredictable, such networks have been modeled using random communication graphs. When…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Beth Bjorkman , Matthew Hale , Thomas Lamkin , Benjamin Robinson , Craig Thompson

We study the problem of identifying infection sources in a network based on the network topology, and a subset of infection timestamps. In the case of a single infection source in a tree network, we derive the maximum likelihood estimator…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Wenchang Tang , Feng Ji , Wee Peng Tay

Viral spread on large graphs has many real-life applications such as malware propagation in computer networks and rumor (or misinformation) spread in Twitter-like online social networks. Although viral spread on large graphs has been…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-09 Milan Bradonjić , Michael Molloy , Guanhua Yan