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Network models with preferential attachment, where new nodes are injected into the network and form links with existing nodes proportional to their current connectivity, have been well studied for some time. Extensions have been introduced…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-26 James P. Bagrow , Dirk Brockmann

Adult language learning varies greatly among individuals. Traditionally associated with frontotemporal language regions, this variability is increasingly seen as stemming from distributed brain networks. However, the role of these networks…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-19 Peilun Song , Shuguang Yang , Xiujuan Geng , Zhenzhong Gan , Suiping Wang , Gangyi Feng

Human language defines the most complex outcomes of evolution. The emergence of such an elaborated form of communication allowed humans to create extremely structured societies and manage symbols at different levels including, among others,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-14 Ricard V. Solé , Luís F. Seoane

While the majority of approaches to the characterization of complex networks has relied on measurements considering only the immediate neighborhood of each network node, valuable information about the network topological properties can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Filipi Nascimento Silva

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

People are observed to assortatively connect on a set of traits. This phenomenon, termed assortative mixing or sometimes homophily, can be quantified through assortativity coefficient in social networks. Uncovering the exact causes of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-21 Sanja Šćepanović , Igor Mishkovski , Bruno Gonçalves , Nguyen Trung Hieu , Pan Hui

There are diverse mechanisms driving the evolution of social networks. A key open question dealing with understanding their evolution is: How various preferential linking mechanisms produce networks with different features? In this paper we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 Haibo Hu , Jinli Guo , Xuan Liu

Clustering, assortativity, and communities are key features of complex networks. We probe dependencies between these attributes and find that ensembles with strong clustering display both high assortativity by degree and prominent community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 David V. Foster , Jacob G. Foster , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski

In the study of ad hoc sensor networks, clustering plays an important role in energy conservation therefore analyzing the mechanics of such topology can be helpful to make logistic decisions .Using the theory of complex network the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Chiranjib Patra , Samiran Chattopadhyay , Matangini Chattopadhyay , Parama Bhaumik

Since some realistic networks are influenced not only by increment behavior but also by tunable clustering mechanism with new nodes to be added to networks, it is interesting to characterize the model for those actual networks. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-03 Ying-Hong Ma , Huijia Li , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Percolation theory can be used to describe the structural properties of complex networks using the generating function formulation. This mapping assumes that the network is locally tree-like and does not contain short-range loops between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-03 Peter Mann , V. Anne Smith , John B. O. Mitchell , Simon Dobson

We constructs a new network by superposition of hexahedron , which are scale-free, highly sparse,disassortative ,and maximal planar graphs. The network degree distribution, agglomeration coefficient and degree of correlation are computed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-12 Li Haijun , Lu Qingping

Networks in nature are often formed within a spatial domain in a dynamical manner, gaining links and nodes as they develop over time. We propose a class of spatially-based growing network models and investigate the relationship between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-12-30 Ari Zitin , Alex Gorowora , Shane Squires , Mark Herrera , Thomas M. Antonsen , Michelle Girvan , Edward Ott

We present results from our quantitative study of statistical and network properties of literary and scientific texts written in two languages: English and Polish. We show that Polish texts are described by the Zipf law with the scaling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-12-16 Iwona Grabska-Gradzinska , Andrzej Kulig , Jaroslaw Kwapien , Stanislaw Drozdz

There are different ways to define similarity for grouping similar texts into clusters, as the concept of similarity may depend on the purpose of the task. For instance, in topic extraction similar texts mean those within the same semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Diego R. Amancio , Osvaldo N. Oliveira , Luciano da F. Costa

We introduce a growing network model in which a new node attaches to a randomly-selected node, as well as to all ancestors of the target node. This mechanism produces a sparse, ultra-small network where the average node degree grows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

A complex network is a condensed representation of the relational topological framework of a complex system. A main reason for the existence of such networks is the transmission of items through the entities of these complex systems. Here,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-18 María Pereda , Ernesto Estrada

We present statistical analyses of the large-scale structure of three types of semantic networks: word associations, WordNet, and Roget's thesaurus. We show that they have a small-world structure, characterized by sparse connectivity, short…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Steyvers , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

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

We study a social network consisting of over $10^4$ individuals, with a degree distribution exhibiting two power scaling regimes separated by a critical degree $k_{\rm crit}$, and a power law relation between degree and local clustering. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabor Csanyi , Balazs Szendroi