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We use multiple measures of graph complexity to evaluate the realism of synthetically-generated networks of human activity, in comparison with several stylized network models as well as a collection of empirical networks from the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Kiran Karra , Samarth Swarup , Justus Graham

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

Dimensionality is one of the most important properties of complex physical systems. However, only recently this concept has been considered in the context of complex networks. In this paper we further develop the previously introduced…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-19 Filipi Nascimento Silva , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

The identification of vertices that play a central role in network analysis is a fundamental challenge. Although traditional centrality measures have been extensively employed for this purpose, the increasing complexity of modern networks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Taiki Yamada

Complex networks are a powerful modeling tool, allowing the study of countless real-world systems. They have been used in very different domains such as computer science, biology, sociology, management, etc. Authors have been trying to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Burcu Kantarcı , Vincent Labatut

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

A central issue of the science of complex systems is the quantitative characterization of complexity. In the present work we address this issue by resorting to information geometry. Actually we propose a constructive way to associate to a -…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Roberto Franzosi , Domenico Felice , Stefano Mancini , Marco Pettini

The behavior of complex systems is determined not only by the topological organization of their interconnections but also by the dynamical processes taking place among their constituents. A faithful modeling of the dynamics is essential…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Lambiotte , R. Sinatra , J. -C. Delvenne , T. S. Evans , M. Barahona , V. Latora

We investigate the complexity of deep neural networks through the lens of functional equivalence, which posits that different parameterizations can yield the same network function. Leveraging the equivalence property, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Guohao Shen

We review measures of street network structure proposed in the recent literature, establish their relevance to practice, and identify open challenges facing researchers. These measures' empirical values vary substantially across world…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-13 Marc Barthelemy , Geoff Boeing

This work describes how the formalization of complex network concepts in terms of discrete mathematics, especially mathematical morphology, allows a series of generalizations and important results ranging from new measurements of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-19 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Luis Enrique C. da Rocha

Interactions between units in phyical, biological, technological, and social systems usually give rise to intrincate networks with non-trivial structure, which critically affects the dynamics and properties of the system. The focus of most…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Guimera , M. Sales-Pardo , L. A. N. Amaral

The learnability of different neural architectures can be characterized directly by computable measures of data complexity. In this paper, we reframe the problem of architecture selection as understanding how data determines the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 William H. Guss , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Concepts such as energy dependence, random deployment, dynamic topological update, self-organization, varying large number of nodes are among many factors that make WSNs a type of complex system. However, when analyzing WSNs properties…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Vincent Labatut , Ozgovde Atay

One important issue implied by the finite nature of real-world networks regards the identification of their more external (border) and internal nodes. The present work proposes a formal and objective definition of these properties, founded…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Bruno A. N. Travencolo , Matheus P. Viana , Luciano da F. Costa

Complex networks can model the structure and dynamics of different types of systems. It has been shown that they are characterized by a set of measures. In this work, we evaluate the variability of complex networks measures face to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 Raquel Cabral , Alejandro Frery , Jaime Ramírez

The human organism is an integrated network where complex physiologic systems, each with its own regulatory mechanisms, continuously interact, and where failure of one system can trigger a breakdown of the entire network. Identifying and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-03-02 Amir Bashan , Ronny P. Bartsch , Jan W. Kantelhardt , Shlomo Havlin , Plamen Ch. Ivanov

In network science complex systems are represented as a mathematical graphs consisting of a set of nodes representing the components and a set of edges representing their interactions. The framework of networks has led to significant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-07 Alexandre Bovet , Hernán A. Makse

This article provides a taxonomy of current and past network modeling efforts. In all these efforts over the last few years we see a trend towards not only describing the network, but connected devices as well. This is especially current…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Jeroen van der Ham , Mattijs Ghijsen , Paola Grosso , Cees de Laat

A very interesting matter of Network Science is assessing how complex a given network is. In other words, by how much does such a network departs from any general patterns which could be evoked for its description. Among other choices,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Roger S. Passos , Douglas O. Cardoso