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The richness of many complex systems stems from the interactions among their components. The higher-order nature of these interactions, involving many units at once, and their temporal dynamics constitute crucial properties that shape the…

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Reasoning about graphs evolving over time is a challenging concept in many domains, such as bioinformatics, physics, and social networks. We consider a common case in which edges can be short term interactions (e.g., messaging) or long term…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-22 Boris Knyazev , Carolyn Augusta , Graham W. Taylor

Networks representing social, biological, technological or other systems are often characterized by higher-order interaction involving any number of nodes. Temporal hypergraphs are given by ordered sequences of hyperedges representing sets…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-27 Jürgen Lerner , Marian-Gabriel Hâncean , Matjaz Perc

In complex networks the degrees of adjacent nodes may often appear dependent -- which presents a modelling challenge. We present a working framework for studying networks with an arbitrary joint distribution for the degrees of adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Samuel , G. Balogh , Gergely Palla , Ivan Kryven

In temporal networks, where nodes interact via sequences of temporary events, information or resources can only flow through paths that follow the time-ordering of events. Such temporal paths play a crucial role in dynamic processes.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-07-20 Raj Kumar Pan , Jari Saramäki

Dynamic gene-regulatory networks are complex since the number of potential components involved in the system is very large. Estimating dynamic networks is an important task because they compromise valuable information about interactions…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-05-15 Antonino Abbruzzo , Ernst Wit

Virtually all real-world networks are dynamical entities. In social networks, the propensity of nodes to engage in social interactions (activity) and their chances to be selected by active nodes (attractiveness) are heterogeneously…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-13 Laura Alessandretti , Kaiyuan Sun , Andrea Baronchelli , Nicola Perra

The way in which different types of dynamics unfold in complex networks is intrinsically related to the propagation of activation along nodes, which is strongly affected by the network connectivity. In this work we investigate to which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-11-25 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Contagion effect refers to the causal effect of peers' behavior on the outcome of an individual in social networks. Contagion can be confounded due to latent homophily which makes contagion effect estimation very hard: nodes in a homophilic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zahra Fatemi , Elena Zheleva

Many complex systems can be modeled by temporal networks, whose organization often evolves through distinct structural phases. Detecting the change points that delimit these phases is both important and challenging. In this work, we extend…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Samuel Koovely , Alexandre Bovet

Multiplex contagion dynamics display localization phenomena in which spreading activity concentrates on a subset of layers, as well as delocalized regimes where layers behave collectively. We investigate how these regimes are encoded in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-02 Joan Hernàndez Tey , Emanuele Cozzo

This work presents a framework for studying temporal networks using zigzag persistence, a tool from the field of Topological Data Analysis (TDA). The resulting approach is general and applicable to a wide variety of time-varying graphs. For…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Audun Myers , David Muñoz , Firas Khasawneh , Elizabeth Munch

Homophily, the tendency of similar nodes to connect, is a fundamental phenomenon in network science and a critical factor in the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs). While existing studies primarily explore homophily in homogeneous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhen Tao , Ziyue Qiao , Chaoqi Chen , Zhengyi Yang , Lun Du , Qingqiang Sun

Networks are well-established representations of social systems, and temporal networks are widely used to study their dynamics. Temporal network data often consist in a succession of static networks over consecutive time windows whose…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-30 Valeria Gelardi , Didier Le Bail , Alain Barrat , Nicolas Claidière

Biological networks have been recently found to exhibit many topological properties of the so-called complex networks. It has been reported that they are, in general, both highly skewed and directed. In this paper, we report on the dynamics…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno , Luis M. Floria

Understanding how information, diseases, or influence spread across networks is a fundamental challenge in complex systems. While network diameter has been extensively studied in static networks, its definition and behavior in temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zahra Farahi , Ali Kamandi , Ali Moeini

Key graph-based problems play a central role in understanding network topology and uncovering patterns of similarity in homogeneous and temporal data. Such patterns can be revealed by analyzing communities formed by nodes, which in turn can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Davide Rucci , Emanuele Carlini , Patrizio Dazzi , Hanna Kavalionak , Matteo Mordacchini

Recently, a framework for analyzing time series by constructing an associated complex network has attracted significant research interest. One of the advantages of the complex network method for studying time series is that complex network…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ruoxi Xiang , Jie Zhang , Xiao-ke Xu , Michael Small

Networks are frequently used to model complex systems comprised of interacting elements. While edges capture the topology of direct interactions, the true complexity of many systems originates from higher-order patterns in paths by which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Christoph Gote , Vincenzo Perri , Ingo Scholtes

Network topology and nodal dynamics are two fundamental stones of adaptive networks. Detailed and accurate knowledge of these two ingredients is crucial for understanding the evolution and mechanism of adaptive networks. In this paper, by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-24 Jie Zhou , Gaoxi Xiao , Guanrong Chen