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Several fundamental properties of real complex networks, such as the small-world effect, the scale-free degree distribution, and recently discovered topological fractal structure, have presented the possibility of a unique growth mechanism…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 Liuhua Zou , Wenjiang Pei , Tao Li , Zhenya He , Yiuming Cheung

We study systems of interacting reinforced stochastic processes, where agents' decisions evolve under reinforcement, network-mediated interactions, and environmental influences. In competitive environments with irreducible networks, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Michele Aleandri , Paolo Dai Pra , Ida Germana Minelli

From social interactions to the human brain, higher-order networks are key to describe the underlying network geometry and topology of many complex systems. While it is well known that network structure strongly affects its function, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-11 Ana P Millán , Reza Ghorbanchian , Nicolò Defenu , Federico Battiston , Ginestra Bianconi

In this paper, we extended road-based topological analysis to both nationwide and urban road networks, and concentrated on a sensitivity study with respect to the formation of self-organized natural roads based on the Gestalt principle of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-07-14 Bin Jiang , Sijian Zhao , Junjun Yin

We study the effect of topology variation on the dynamic behavior of a system with local update rules. We implement one-dimensional binary cellular automata on graphs with various topologies by formulating two sets of degree-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Carsten Marr , Marc-Thorsten Huett

Networks are universally considered as complex structures of interactions of large multi-component systems. In order to determine the role that each node has inside a complex network, several centrality measures have been developed. Such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-20 Malbor Asllani , Bruno Requiao da Cunha , Ernesto Estrada , James P. Gleeson

We derive an exact representation of the topological effect on the dynamics of sequence processing neural networks within signal-to-noise analysis. A new network structure parameter, loopiness coefficient, is introduced to quantitatively…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-05-11 Pan Zhang , Yong Chen

Despite their claimed biological plausibility, most self organizing networks have strict topological constraints and consequently they cannot take into account a wide range of external stimuli. Furthermore their evolution is conditioned by…

General Physics · Physics 2010-04-26 Ignazio Licata , Luigi Lella

In previous work I examined an information based complexity measure of networks with weighted links. The measure was compared with that obtained from by randomly shuffling the original network, forming an Erdos-Renyi random network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Russell Standish

The study of causal structure in complex systems has gained increasing attention, with many recent studies exploring causal networks that capture cause-effect relationships across diverse fields. Despite increasing empirical evidence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-26 Jiazhen Liu , Kunal Tamang , Dashun Wang , Chaoming Song

Many socioeconomic phenomena, such as technology adoption, collaborative problem-solving, and content engagement, involve a collection of agents coordinating to take a common action, aligning their decisions to maximize their individual…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-26 Yifei Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

In order to deal efficiently with the exponential growth of the Web services landscape in composition life cycle activities, it is necessary to have a clear view of its main features. As for many situations where there is a lot of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Chantal Cherifi , Jean-François Santucci

The ability to achieve coordinated behavior --engineered or emergent-- on networked systems has attracted widespread interest over several fields. This has led to remarkable advances on the development of a theoretical understanding of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Hancheng Min , Enrique Mallada

There has recently been an explosion of interest in how "higher-order" structures emerge in complex systems. This "emergent" organization has been found in a variety of natural and artificial systems, although at present the field lacks a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Thomas F. Varley , Joshua Bongard

We argue that the coordination of the activities of individual complex agents enables a system to develop and sustain complexity at a higher level. We exemplify relevant mechanisms through computer simulations of a toy system, a coupled map…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Fatihcan M. Atay , Jürgen Jost

Many real world networks, such as social networks, are primarily formed through local interactions between agents. Additionally, in contrast with common network models, social and biological networks exhibit a high degree of clustering.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-10 Navid Dianati , Nima Dehmamy

A social choice procedure is modeled as a repeated Nash game between the social agents, who are communicating with each other through a social communication network modeled by an undirected graph. The agents' criteria for this game are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Athanasios-Rafail Lagos , George P. Papavassilopoulos

Most agent-based models include a social network that describes the structure of interactions within the artificial population. Because of the dramatic impact of this structure on the simulated dynamics, modelers create this network for it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-11 Samuel Thiriot

This work examines the problem of topology inference over discrete-time nonlinear stochastic networked dynamical systems. The goal is to recover the underlying digraph linking the network agents, from observations of their state-evolution.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Augusto Santos , Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

Self-organization is a process where a stable pattern is formed by the cooperative behavior between parts of an initially disordered system without external control or influence. It has been introduced to multi-agent systems as an internal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Jieting Luo , Beishui Liao , John-Jules Meyer