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Intermediate-scale (or `meso-scale') structures in networks have received considerable attention, as the algorithmic detection of such structures makes it possible to discover network features that are not apparent either at the local scale…

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This paper introduces a chordal decomposition approach for scalable analysis of linear networked systems, including stability, $\mathcal{H}_2$ and $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ performance. Our main strategy is to exploit any sparsity within these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Yang Zheng , Maryam Kamgarpour , Aivar Sootla , Antonis Papachristodoulou

We present a generalized method for calculating the k-shell structure of weighted networks. The method takes into account both the weight and the degree of a network, in such a way that in the absence of weights we resume the shell…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-08-28 Antonios Garas , Frank Schweitzer , Shlomo Havlin

To understand the structure of a network, it can be useful to break it down into its constituent pieces. This is the approach taken in a multitude of successful network analysis methods, such as motif analysis. These methods require one to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-02 Tarmo Nurmi , Mikko Kivelä

Massive network exploration is an important research direction with many applications. In such a setting, the network is, usually, modeled as a graph $G$, whereas any structural information of interest is extracted by inspecting the way…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Panagiotis Strouthopoulos , Apostolos Papadopoulos

Graph decompositions are the natural generalisation of tree decompositions where the decomposition tree is replaced by a genuine graph. Recently they found theoretical applications in the theory of sparsity, topological graph theory,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Johannes Carmesin , Sarah Frenkel

Interconnected networks have been shown to be much more vulnerable to random and targeted failures than isolated ones, raising several interesting questions regarding the identification and mitigation of their risk. The paradigm to address…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Christian M. Schneider , Nuno A. M. Araújo , Hans J. Herrmann

Networks play a prominent role in the study of complex systems of interacting entities in biology, sociology, and economics. Despite this diversity, we demonstrate here that a statistical model decomposing networks into matching and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-05 Rudolf P. Rohr , Russel E. Naisbit , Christian Mazza , Louix-Félix Bersier

The heterogeneous structure implies that a very few nodes may play the critical role in maintaining structural and functional properties of a large-scale network. Identifying these vital nodes is one of the most important tasks in network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-14 Yong Yu , Ming Jing , Na Zhao , Tao Zhou

Network science has presented community detection as a valuable tool for revealing functional modules in complex systems rooted in the wiring architectures of complex networks. The varying procedures of community detection can produce,…

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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…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-01 Yoon Seok Im , B. Kahng

For a pair of positive parameters $D,\chi$, a partition ${\cal P}$ of the vertex set $V$ of an $n$-vertex graph $G = (V,E)$ into disjoint clusters of diameter at most $D$ each is called a $(D,\chi)$ network decomposition, if the supergraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Michael Elkin , Ofer Neiman

To understand the structure of a large-scale biological, social, or technological network, it can be helpful to decompose the network into smaller subunits or modules. In this article, we develop an information-theoretic foundation for the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Rosvall , Carl T. Bergstrom

We described a simple algorithm running in linear time for each fixed constant $k$, that either establishes that the pathwidth of a graph $G$ is greater than $k$, or finds a path-decomposition of $G$ of width at most $O(2^{k})$. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Kevin Cattell , Michael J. Dinneen , Michael R. Fellows

In this letter, we investigate the resource allocation for downlink multi-cell coordinated OFDMA wireless networks, in which power allocation and subcarrier scheduling are jointly optimized. Aiming at maximizing the weighted sum of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Zesong Fei , Shuo Li , Chengwen Xing , Yiqing Zhou , Jingming Kuang

Decomposing hypergraphs is a key task in hypergraph analysis with broad applications in community detection, pattern discovery, and task scheduling. Existing approaches such as $k$-core and neighbor-$k$-core rely on vertex degree…

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Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised to model complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, have gained significant attention for representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dahee Kim , Hyewon Kim , Song Kim , Minseok Kim , Junghoon Kim , Yeon-Chang Lee , Sungsu Lim

The $k$-core decomposition is a widely studied summary statistic that describes a graph's global connectivity structure. In this paper, we move beyond using $k$-core decomposition as a tool to summarize a graph and propose using $k$-core…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Vishesh Karwa , Michael J. Pelsmajer , Sonja Petrović , Despina Stasi , Dane Wilburne

This paper presents significantly improved deterministic algorithms for some of the key problems in the area of distributed graph algorithms, including network decomposition, hitting sets, and spanners. As the main ingredient in these…

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Graphs are a natural representation of data from various contexts, such as social connections, the web, road networks, and many more. In the last decades, many of these networks have become enormous, requiring efficient algorithms to cut…

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