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Complex numbers define the relationship between entities in many situations. A canonical example would be the off-diagonal terms in a Hamiltonian matrix in quantum physics. Recent years have seen an increasing interest to extend the tools…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yu Tian , Renaud Lambiotte

This paper (parts I and II) provides an expository introduction to monotone and near-monotone dynamical systems associated to biochemical networks, those whose graphs are consistent or near-consistent. Many conclusions can be drawn from…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Eduardo D. Sontag

This article serves as an introduction to the study of networks of social systems. First, we introduce the reader to key mathematical tools to study social networks, including mathematical representations of networks and essential…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-03 Heather Z. Brooks

Signed network embeddings (SNE) are widely used to represent networks with positive and negative relations, but their repeated use in downstream analysis pipelines can inadvertently reinforce structural polarization. Existing polarization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Jeonghan Son , Kyungsik Han , Yeon-Chang Lee

Signed networks have long been used to represent social relations of amity (+) and enmity (-) between individuals. Group of individuals who are cyclically connected are said to be balanced if the number of negative edges in the cycle is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-19 P. -L. Giscard , P. Rochet , R. C. Wilson

Many physical and biological systems can be studied using complex network theory, a new statistical physics understanding of graph theory. The recent application of complex network theory to the study of functional brain networks generated…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-06-17 D. Papo , M. Zanin , J. A. Pineda-Pardo , S. Boccaletti , J. M. Buldú

What do societies, the Internet, and the human brain have in common? They are all examples of complex relational systems, whose emerging behaviours are largely determined by the non-trivial networks of interactions among their constituents,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-18 Federico Battiston , Vincenzo Nicosia , Vito Latora

Complex networks pervade various real-world systems, from the natural environment to human societies. The essence of these networks is in their ability to transition and evolve from microscopic disorder-where network topology and node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jingtao Ding , Chang Liu , Yu Zheng , Yunke Zhang , Zihan Yu , Ruikun Li , Hongyi Chen , Jinghua Piao , Huandong Wang , Jiazhen Liu , Yong Li

Dynamic networks consist of interconnected dynamical systems. The subsystems can be viewed as transformations of input signals into output signals, where signals flow from one system into another through interconnections. The signal flows…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 E. M. M. , Kivits , Paul M. J. Van den Hof

The concept of structured occurrence nets is an extension of that of occurrence nets which are directed acyclic graphs that represent causality and concurrency information concerning a single execution of a distributed system. The formalism…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mohammed Alahmadi , Salma Alharbi , Talal Alharbi , Nadiyah Almutairi , Tuwailaa Alshammari , Anirban Bhattacharyya , Maciej Koutny , Bowen Li , Brian Randell

Network theory has unveiled the underlying structure of complex systems such as the Internet or the biological networks in the cell. It has identified universal properties of complex networks, and the interplay between their structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-21 Ginestra Bianconi

The Ego Network Model (ENM) describes how individuals organise their social relations in concentric circles (typically five) of decreasing intimacy, and it has been found almost ubiquitously in social networks, both offline and online. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jack Tacchi , Chiara Boldrini , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

Deep graph neural networks (GNNs) often suffer from oversmoothing, where node representations become overly homogeneous with increasing depth. While techniques like normalization, residual connections, and edge dropout have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jiaqi Wang , Xinyi Wu , James Cheng , Yifei Wang

The science of complex networks is a new interdisciplinary branch of science which has arisen recently on the interface of physics, biology, social and computer sciences, and others. Its main goal is to discover general laws governing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Waclaw

A fundamental premise of statistical physics is that the particles in a physical system are interchangeable, and hence the state of each specific component is representative of the system as a whole. This assumption breaks down for complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-16 Neil G. MacLaren , Baruch Barzel , Naoki Masuda

A new family of graphs, {\it entangled networks}, with optimal properties in many respects, is introduced. By definition, their topology is such that optimizes synchronizability for many dynamical processes. These networks are shown to have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luca Donetti , Pablo I. Hurtado , Miguel A. Munoz

We propose an adaptive control protocol for identifying the topology of dynamical networks interconnected over undirected graphs with cooperative and antagonistic interactions. The signed network is modeled using a repelling Laplacian.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Pelin Sekercioglu , Nana Wang , Angela Fontan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper (parts I and II) provides an expository introduction to monotone and near-monotone dynamical systems associated to biochemical networks, those whose graphs are consistent or near-consistent. Many conclusions can be drawn from…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Eduardo D. Sontag

Polarization, understood as a division into mutually hostile groups, is a common feature of social systems. It is studied in Structural Balance Theory (SBT) in terms of semicycles in signed networks. However, enumerating semicycles is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-30 Szymon Talaga , Massimo Stella , Trevor James Swanson , Andreia Sofia Teixeira

Understanding the structure of weighted signed networks is essential for analysing social systems in which relationships vary both in sign and strength. Despite significant advances in statistical network analysis, there is still a lack of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-06 Alberto Caimo , Isabella Gollini