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In this article, we present a novel box-covering algorithm for analyzing the fractal properties of complex networks. Unlike traditional algorithms that impose a predetermined box size, our approach assigns nodes to boxes identified by their…
The self-similarity of complex networks is typically investigated through computational algorithms the primary task of which is to cover the structure with a minimal number of boxes. Here we introduce a box-covering algorithm that not only…
Analysis and modeling of networked objects are fundamental pieces of modern data mining. Most real-world networks, from biological to social ones, are known to have common structural properties. These properties allow us to model the growth…
Research on fractal networks is a dynamically growing field of network science. A central issue is to analyze fractality with the so-called box-covering method. As this problem is known to be NP-hard, a plethora of approximating algorithms…
The fractal and self-similarity properties are revealed in many real complex networks. However, the classical information dimension of complex networks is not practical for real complex networks. In this paper, a new information dimension…
In many real complex networks, the fractal and self-similarity properties have been found. The fractal dimension is a useful method to describe fractal property of complex networks. Fractal analysis is inadequate if only taking one fractal…
The fractal nature of complex networks has received a great deal of research interest in the last two decades. Similarly to geometric fractals, the fractality of networks can also be defined with the so-called box-covering method. A network…
A random sequential box-covering algorithm recently introduced to measure the fractal dimension in scale-free networks is investigated. The algorithm contains Monte Carlo sequential steps of choosing the position of the center of each box,…
Fractal dimension is widely adopted in spatial databases and data mining, among others as a measure of dataset skewness. State-of-the-art algorithms for estimating the fractal dimension exhibit linear runtime complexity whether based on…
Complex networks have recently attracted much attention in diverse areas of science and technology. Many networks such as the WWW and biological networks are known to display spatial heterogeneity which can be characterized by their fractal…
Least box number coverage problem for calculating dimension of fractal networks is a NP-hard problem. Meanwhile, the time complexity of random ball coverage for calculating dimension is very low. In this paper we strictly present the upper…
We show that fractality in complex networks arises from the geometric self-similarity of their built-in hierarchical community-like structure, which is mathematically described by the scale-invariant equation for the masses of the boxes…
Fractal scaling--a power-law behavior of the number of boxes needed to tile a given network with respect to the lateral size of the box--is studied. We introduce a new box-covering algorithm that is a modified version of the original…
In this paper we study self-similar and fractal networks from the combinatorial perspective. We establish analogues of topological (Lebesgue) and fractal (Hausdorff) dimensions for graphs and demonstrate that they are naturally related to…
Over the past three decades, describing the reality surrounding us using the language of complex networks has become very useful and therefore popular. One of the most important features, especially of real networks, is their complexity,…
Fractal structures emerge from statistical and hierarchical processes in urban development or network evolution. In a class of efficient and robust geographical networks, we derive the size distribution of layered areas, and estimate the…
This work presents a new Visual Basic 6.0 application for estimating the fractal dimension of images, based on an optimized version of the box-counting algorithm. Following the attempt to separate the real information from noise, we…
Network dismantling is to identify a minimal set of nodes whose removal breaks the network into small components of subextensive size. Because finding the optimal set of nodes is an NP-hard problem, several heuristic algorithms have been…
Complex networks have been studied in recent years due to their relevance in biological, social and technical real systems, such as the world wide web, social networks and biochemical interactions. One of the most current features of…
The fractal dimension provides a statistical index of object complexity by studying how the pattern changes with the measuring scale. Although useful in several classification tasks, the fractal dimension is under-explored in deep learning…