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The dynamics of neural networks is often characterized by collective behavior and quasi-synchronous events, where a large fraction of neurons fire in short time intervals, separated by uncorrelated firing activity. These global temporal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-03 Raffaella Burioni , Mario Casartelli , Matteo di Volo , Roberto Livi , Alessandro Vezzani

We investigate small-world networks from the point of view of their origin. While the characteristics of small-world networks are now fairly well understood, there is as yet no work on what drives the emergence of such a network…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Nisha Mathias , Venkatesh Gopal

Advanced integration of logistics systems has been promoted for the sake of competitiveness and sustainability. Such efforts will enable more globally optimal and flexible operations by efficiently utilizing transportation capacity. At the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-29 Takahiro Ezaki , Naoto Imura , Katsuhiro Nishinari

Complex systems are difficult to study not only because they are nonlinear, multiscale, and often nonstationary, but because their scientifically relevant organization is often invisible at the level of individual components, pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-30 Mark M. Bailey

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly instantiated as interacting agents in multi-agent systems (MAS), where collective decisions emerge through social interaction rather than independent reasoning. A fundamental yet underexplored…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Chen Han , Jin Tan , Bohan Yu , Wenzhen Zheng , Xijin Tang

The understanding of neural activity patterns is fundamentally linked to an understanding of how the brain's network architecture shapes dynamical processes. Established approaches rely mostly on deviations of a given network from certain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-09-19 Marc-Thorsten Huett , Marcus Kaiser , Claus C. Hilgetag

The main problem we address in this paper is whether function determines form when a society of agents organizes itself for some purpose or whether the organizing method is more important than the functionality in determining the structure…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanya Araujo , R. Vilela Mendes

Functional complex networks have meant a pivotal change in the way we understand complex systems, being the most outstanding one the human brain. These networks have classically been reconstructed using a frequentist approach that, while…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-03-14 Massimiliano Zanin , Seddik Belkoura , Javier Gomez , Cesar Alfaro , Javier Cano

To explore the relation between network structure and function, we studied the computational performance of Hopfield-type attractor neural nets with regular lattice, random, small-world and scale-free topologies. The random net is the most…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick N. Mcgraw , Michael Menzinger

Coordination is a desirable feature in many multi-agent systems such as robotic and socioeconomic networks. We consider a task allocation problem as a binary networked coordination game over an undirected regular graph. Each agent in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Yifei Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

Although higher-order interactions are known to affect the typical state of dynamical processes giving rise to new collective behavior, how they drive the emergence of rare events and fluctuations is still an open problem. We investigate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-09 Leonardo Di Gaetano , Giorgio Carugno , Federico Battiston , Francesco Coghi

The integration and transmission of information in the brain are dependent on the interplay between structural and dynamical properties. Implicit in any pursuit aimed at understanding neural dynamics from appropriate sets of mathematically…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-30 Joshua M. Roldan , Sebastian Pardo G. , Vivek Kurien George , Gabriel A. Silva

Paths are important structural elements in complex networks because they are finite (unlike walks), related to effective node coverage (minimum spanning trees), and can be understood as being dual to star connectivity. This article…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-12-05 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Characterization of the differences between biological and random networks can reveal the design principles that enable the robust realization of crucial biological functions including the establishment of different cell types. Previous…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-26 Shubham Tripathi , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

Random intersection graphs have received much interest and been used in diverse applications. They are naturally induced in modeling secure sensor networks under random key predistribution schemes, as well as in modeling the topologies of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Jun Zhao , Osman Yağan , Virgil Gligor

Higher-order networks, naturally described as hypergraphs, are essential for modeling real-world systems involving interactions among three or more entities. Stochastic block models offer a principled framework for characterizing mesoscale…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Kazuki Nakajima , Yuya Sasaki , Takeaki Uno , Masaki Aida

The structure of a complex network plays a crucial role in determining its dynamical properties. In this work, we show that the the degree to which a network is directed and hierarchically organised is closely associated with the degree to…

Despite their topological complexity almost all functional properties of metabolic networks can be derived from steady-state dynamics. Indeed, many theoretical investigations (like flux-balance analysis) rely on extracting function from…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Carsten Marr , Mark Mueller-Linow , Marc-Thorsten Huett

Nodes in a complex networked system often engage in more than one type of interactions among them; they form a multiplex network with multiple types of links. In real-world complex systems, a node's degree for one type of links and that for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-29 Kyu-Min Lee , Jung Yeol Kim , Won-kuk Cho , K. -I. Goh , I. -M. Kim

We consider a dynamic social network model in which agents play repeated games in pairings determined by a stochastically evolving social network. Individual agents begin to interact at random, with the interactions modeled as games. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brian Skyrms , Robin Pemantle