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Many complex systems can be represented as networks, and the problem of network comparison is becoming increasingly relevant. There are many techniques for network comparison, from simply comparing network summary statistics to…

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Clustering is typically measured by the ratio of triangles to all triples, open or closed. Generating clustered networks, and how clustering affects dynamics on networks, is reasonably well understood for certain classes of networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-22 Martin Ritchie , Luc Berthouze , Thomas House , Istvan Z. Kiss

The theory of community structure is a powerful tool for real networks, which can simplify their topological and functional analysis considerably. However, since community detection methods have random factors and real social networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-30 Hui-Jia Li , Hao Wang , Luonan Chen

Network topology is a fundamental aspect of network science that allows us to gather insights into the complicated relational architectures of the world we inhabit. We provide a first specific study of neighbourhood degree sequences in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Keith M. Smith

Many systems, ranging from biological and engineering systems to social systems, can be modeled as directed networks, with links representing directed interaction between two nodes. To assess the importance of a node in a directed network,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-06 Naoki Masuda , Yoji Kawamura , Hiroshi Kori

Formation of a hierarchy within an organization is a natural way of assigning the duties, delegating responsibilities and optimizing the flow of information. Only for the smallest companies the lack of the hierarchy, that is, a flat one, is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Mateusz Nurek , Radosław Michalski

A network can be analyzed at different topological scales, ranging from single nodes to motifs, communities, up to the complete structure. We propose a novel intermediate-level topological analysis that considers non-overlapping subgraphs…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lucas Antiqueira , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Many networks of interest in the sciences, including a variety of social and biological networks, are found to divide naturally into communities or modules. The problem of detecting and characterizing this community structure has attracted…

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Community structures have been identified in various complex real-world networks, for example, communication, information, internet and shareholder networks. The scaling of community size distribution indicates the heterogeneity in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-11 Qing Yao , Bingsheng Chen , Tim S. Evans , Kim Christensen

In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring structural regularities of networks by dividing the nodes of a network into groups such that the members of each group have similar patterns of connections to other groups. Specifically,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-30 Hua-Wei Shen , Xue-Qi Cheng , Jia-Feng Guo

Community structure detection in complex networks is important since it can help better understand the network topology and how the network works. However, there is still not a clear and widely-accepted definition of community structure,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Kai-Di Sun , Si-Qi Wang

Precisely quantifying the heterogeneity or disorder of a network system is very important and desired in studies of behavior and function of the network system. Although many degree-based entropies have been proposed to measure the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-09 Yanghua Xiao , Wentao Wu , Hui Wang , Momiao Xiong , Wei Wang

Hierarchy is one of the most conspicuous features of numerous natural, technological and social systems. The underlying structures are typically complex and their most relevant organizational principle is the ordering of the ties among the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-05 Tamás Nepusz , Tamás Vicsek

This paper uses a database of collaboration recording between Econophysics Scientists to study the community structure of this collaboration network, which with a single type of vertex and a type of undirected, weighted edge. Hierarchical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Peng Zhang , Menghui Li , Jinshan Wu , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

Homophily, the tendency of individuals to connect with others who share similar attributes, is a defining feature of social networks. Understanding how groups interact, both within and across, is crucial for uncovering the dynamics of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Akrati Saxena , Gaurav Kumar , Chandrakala Meena

Extracting understanding from the growing ``sea'' of biological and socio-economic data is one of the most pressing scientific challenges facing us. Here, we introduce and validate an unsupervised method that is able to accurately extract…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Sales-Pardo , R. Guimera , A. Moreira , L. Amaral

Hierarchies permeate the structure of real networks, whose nodes can be ranked according to different features. However, networks are far from tree-like structures and the detection of hierarchical ordering remains a challenge, hindered by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-07 Elisenda Ortiz , Guillermo García-Pérez , M. Ángeles Serrano

We study the hierarchy of communities in real-world networks under a generic stochastic block model, in which the connection probabilities are structured in a binary tree. Under such model, a standard recursive bi-partitioning algorithm is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Lihua Lei , Xiaodong Li , Xingmei Lou

The study of complex networks is a significant development in modern science, and has enriched the social sciences, biology, physics, and computer science. Models and algorithms for such networks are pervasive in our society, and impact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 C. Seshadhri , Aneesh Sharma , Andrew Stolman , Ashish Goel

We study the structural characteristics of complex networks using the representative eigenvectors of the adjacent matrix. The probability distribution function of the components of the representative eigenvectors are proposed to describe…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-30 Guimei Zhu , Huijie Yang , Chuanyang Yin , Baowen Li