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We have extended our experimentally constrained molecular relaxation technique (P. Biswas {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 71} 54204 (2005)) to hydrogenated amorphous silicon: a 540-atom model with 7.4 % hydrogen and a 611-atom model with 22…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Parthapratim Biswas , Raymond Atta-Fynn , David A. Drabold

Disordered spatial networks describe structures and interactions across multiple length scales. The scattering and interference of waves within these networks result in structural phase transitions, localization, diffusion, and band gaps.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-07 Florin Hemmann , Vincent Glauser , Ullrich Steiner , Matthias Saba

The high-resolution visualization of atomic structures is significant for understanding the relationship between the microscopic configurations and macroscopic properties of materials. However, a rapid, accurate, and robust approach to…

Recent work on dictionary learning with set-atoms has shown benefits in anomaly detection. Instead of viewing an atom as a single vector, these methods allow building sparse representations with atoms taken from a set around a central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Andra Băltoiu , Denis C. Ilie-Ablachim , Bogdan Dumitrescu

Amorphous particulate matter constitutes a wide range of natural and synthetic materials. Despite this ubiquity, the way in which these systems' disordered microstructure couples to their often subtle and complex dynamical behavior is not…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-09 Erin G. Teich , Jason Z. Kim , Dani S. Bassett

Systems undergoing an equilibrium phase transition from a liquid state to an amorphous solid state exhibit certain universal characteristics. Chief among these are the fraction of particles that are randomly localized and the scaling…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Weiqun Peng , Horacio E. Castillo , Paul M. Goldbart , Annette Zippelius

We show that subsets of interacting oscillators may synchronize in different ways within a single network. This diversity of synchronization patterns is promoted by increasing the heterogeneous distribution of coupling weights and/or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-05 Daniel Malagarriga , Alessandro E. P. Villa , Jordi García-Ojalvo , Antonio J. Pons

We show how scale-free degree distributions can emerge naturally from growing networks by using random walks for selecting vertices for attachment. This result holds for several variants of the walk algorithm and for a wide range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. S. Evans , J. P. Saramaki

In this study, the concept of small worlds is investigated in the context of large-scale wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Wireless networks are spatial graphs that are usually much more clustered than random networks and have much…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ahmed Helmy

Unconventional computing explores multi-scale platforms connecting molecular-scale devices into networks for the development of scalable neuromorphic architectures, often based on new materials and components with new functionalities. We…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Zoran Konkoli , Göran Wendin

As it is getting increasingly difficult to achieve gains in the density and power efficiency of microelectronic computing devices because of lithographic techniques reaching fundamental physical limits, new approaches are required to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Jean C. Coulombe , Mark C. A. York , Julien Sylvestre

This paper deals with gene networks whose dynamics is assumed to be generated by a continuous-time, linear, time invariant, finite dimensional system (LTI) at steady state. In particular, we deal with the problem of network reconstruction…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Lorenzo Farina , Ilaria Mogno

In this work we propose a computational scheme inspired by the workings of human cognition. We embed some fundamental aspects of the human cognitive system into this scheme in order to obtain a minimization of computational resources and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-20 Daniel Borkmann , Andrea Guazzini , Emanuele Massaro , Stefan Rudolph

We propose an algorithm that builds and maintains clusters over a network subject to mobility. This algorithm is fully decentralized and makes all the different clusters grow concurrently. The algorithm uses circulating tokens that collect…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-11-15 Thibault Bernard , Alain Bui , Laurence Pilard , Devan Sohier

Architected materials derive their properties from the geometric arrangement of their internal structural elements. Their designs rely on continuous networks of members to control the global mechanical behavior of the bulk. Here, we…

This paper presents a distributed algorithm on wireless ad-hoc networks that runs in polylogarithmic number of rounds in the size of the network and constructs a linear size, lightweight, (1+\epsilon)-spanner for any given \epsilon > 0. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-03-17 Mirela Damian , Saurav Pandit , Sriram Pemmaraju

In this contribution, we investigate the fundamental mechanism of plasticity in a model two-dimensional network glass. The glass is generated by using a Monte Carlo bond-switching algorithm and subjected to athermal simple shear…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-30 Firaz Ebrahem , Franz Bamer , Bernd Markert

We propose a randomized algorithm for training Support vector machines(SVMs) on large datasets. By using ideas from Random projections we show that the combinatorial dimension of SVMs is $O({log} n)$ with high probability. This estimate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-09-22 Vinay Jethava , Krishnan Suresh , Chiranjib Bhattacharyya , Ramesh Hariharan

Most networks encountered in nature, society, and technology have weighted edges, representing the strength of the interaction/association between their vertices. Randomizing the structure of a network is a classic procedure used to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-29 Filipi N. Silva , Sadamori Kojaku , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato

Development of many futuristic technologies, such as MANET, VANET, iThings, nano-devices, depend on efficient distributed communication protocols in multi-hop ad hoc networks. A vast majority of research in this area focus on design…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Tomasz Jurdzinski , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Grzegorz Stachowiak