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Although it is unambiguously agreed that structure plays a fundamental role in shaping the dynamics of complex systems, this intricate relationship still remains unclear. We investigate a general computational transformation by which we can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Jie Zhang , Changsong Zhou , Xiaoke Xu , Michael Small

Real networks often grow through the sequential addition of new nodes that connect to older ones in the graph. However, many real systems evolve through the branching of fundamental units, whether those be scientific fields, countries, or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-30 Muhua Zheng , Guillermo García-Pérez , Marián Boguñá , M. Ángeles Serrano

Mapping the Internet generally consists in sampling the network from a limited set of sources by using traceroute-like probes. This methodology, akin to the merging of different spanning trees to a set of destination, has been argued to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Luca Dall'Asta , Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin , Alain Barrat , Alexei Vazquez , Alessandro Vespignani

The topological (or graph) structures of real-world networks are known to be predictive of multiple dynamic properties of the networks. Conventionally, a graph structure is represented using an adjacency matrix or a set of hand-crafted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Cheng Li , Xiaoxiao Guo , Qiaozhu Mei

In this paper, we study the problem of constructing a network by observing ordered connectivity constraints, which we define herein. These ordered constraints are made to capture realistic properties of real-world problems that are not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Yi Huang , Mano Vikash Janardhanan , Lev Reyzin

There are few studies that look closely at how the topology of the Internet evolves over time; most focus on snapshots taken at a particular point in time. In this paper, we investigate the evolution of the topology of the Autonomous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Benjamin Edwards , Steven Hofmeyr , George Stelle , Stephanie Forrest

Social networks have been widely studied over the last century from multiple disciplines to understand societal issues such as inequality in employment rates, managerial performance, and epidemic spread. Today, these and many more issues…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Lisette Espín-Noboa , Tiago Peixoto , Fariba Karimi

Real-world networks are often complex and large with millions of nodes, posing a great challenge for analysts to quickly see the big picture for more productive subsequent analysis. We aim at facilitating exploration of node-attributed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Jia Wang , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Hari Sundaram

Complex networks as the World Wide Web, the web of human sexual contacts or criminal networks often do not have an engineered architecture but instead are self-organized by the actions of a large number of individuals. From these local…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger Ebel , Joern Davidsen , Stefan Bornholdt

Seeking effective neural networks is a critical and practical field in deep learning. Besides designing the depth, type of convolution, normalization, and nonlinearities, the topological connectivity of neural networks is also important.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kun Yuan , Quanquan Li , Jing Shao , Junjie Yan

The structure and evolution of Terrestrial Transportation Infrastructures (TTIs) are shaped by both socio-political and geographical factors, hence encoding crucial information about how resources and power are distributed through a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-29 Luce Prignano , Lluc Font-Pomarol , Ignacio Morer , Sergi Lozano

Geometric constraints impact the formation of a broad range of spatial networks, from amino acid chains folding to proteins structures to rearranging particle aggregates. How the network of interactions dynamically self-organizes in such…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-19 Nora Molkenthin , Marc Timme

One of the most important features of spatial networks such as transportation networks, power grids, Internet, neural networks, is the existence of a cost associated with the length of links. Such a cost has a profound influence on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-04 Rémi Louf , Pablo Jensen , Marc Barthelemy

Understanding network functionality requires integrating structure and dynamics, and emergent latent geometry induced by network-driven processes captures the low-dimensional spaces governing this interplay. Here, we focus on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-02 Andrea Filippo Beretta , Davide Zanchetta , Sebastiano Bontorin , Manlio De Domenico

The discovery of small world and scale free properties of many real world networks has revolutionized the way we study, analyze, model and process networks. An important way to analyze these complex networks is to visualize them using graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Faraz Zaidi

A small-world topology characterizes many complex systems including the structural and functional organization of brain networks. The topology allows simultaneously for local and global efficiency in the interaction of the system…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-30 Sinisa Pajevic , Dietmar Plenz

Networked structures arise in a wide array of different contexts such as technological and transportation infrastructures, social phenomena, and biological systems. These highly interconnected systems have recently been the focus of a great…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alain Barrat , Marc Barthelemy , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

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

We propose a modeling framework for growing multiplexes where a node can belong to different networks. We define new measures for multiplexes and we identify a number of relevant ingredients for modeling their evolution such as the coupling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-01 Vincenzo Nicosia , Ginestra Bianconi , Vito Latora , Marc Barthelemy

We develop a probabilistic framework for global modeling of the traffic over a computer network. This model integrates existing single-link (-flow) traffic models with the routing over the network to capture the global traffic behavior. It…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-25 Stilian A. Stoev , George Michailidis , Joel Vaughan