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Cognitive biases are often attributed to heuristics or limited information. Yet the structure of social networks is a key, often-overlooked source of perceptual bias. When information passes through social connections, the network alone can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-20 Giovanni Palermo , Vittorio Loreto , Giulio Cimini

Complex networks of real-world systems are believed to be controlled by common phenomena, producing structures far from regular or random. These include scale-free degree distributions, small-world structure and assortative mixing by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-24 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

One explanation for the impressive recent boom in network theory might be that it provides a promising tool for an understanding of complex systems. Network theory is mainly focusing on discrete large-scale topological structures rather…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Stefan Thurner

We study the properties of discrete-time random walks on networks formed by randomly interconnected cliques, namely, random networks of cliques. Our purpose is to derive the parameters that define the network structure -- specifically, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-24 Albano Nannini , Damián Zanette

A network is a typical expressive form of representing complex systems in terms of vertices and links, in which the pattern of interactions amongst components of the network is intricate. The network can be static that does not change over…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hayat Dino Bedru , Shuo Yu , Xinru Xiao , Da Zhang , Liangtian Wan , He Guo , Feng Xia

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

Community or modular structure is considered to be a significant property of large scale real-world graphs such as social or information networks. Detecting influential clusters or communities in these graphs is a problem of considerable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Prakhar Ganesh , Saket Dingliwal , Rahul Agarwal

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

Compound graphs are networks in which vertices can be grouped into larger subsets, with these subsets capable of further grouping, resulting in a nesting that can be many levels deep. In several applications, including biological workflows,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Chang Han , Justin Lieffers , Clayton Morrison , Katherine E. Isaacs

Economy, and consequently trade, is a fundamental part of human social organization which, until now, has not been studied within the network modelling framework. Networks are mathematical tools used in the modelling of a wide variety of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Angeles Serrano , Marian Boguna

The graph theoretic properties of the clustering coefficient, characteristic (or average) path length, global and local efficiency, provide valuable information regarding the structure of a graph. These four properties have applications to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Alexander Strang , Oliver Haynes , Nathan D. Cahill , Darren A. Narayan

Geometry can be used to explain many properties commonly observed in real networks. It is therefore often assumed that real networks, especially those with high average local clustering, live in an underlying hidden geometric space.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-11 J. van der Kolk , M. Á. Serrano , M. Boguñá

Many networks in nature, society and technology are characterized by a mesoscopic level of organization, with groups of nodes forming tightly connected units, called communities or modules, that are only weakly linked to each other.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-11 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato , Janos Kertesz

We study a class models of correlated random networks in which vertices are characterized by \textit{hidden variables} controlling the establishment of edges between pairs of vertices. We find analytical expressions for the main topological…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Marian Boguna , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

By natural way the hierarchy structure is introduced on directed graphs with weighted adjacencies. Embedded system of algebras of subsets of the set of vertices of such digraph and it's consolidations, which vertices are the elementary sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. A. Buslov

Network science is an interdisciplinary endeavor, with methods and applications drawn from across the natural, social, and information sciences. A prominent problem in network science is the algorithmic detection of tightly-connected groups…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-07-14 Peter J. Mucha , Thomas Richardson , Kevin Macon , Mason A. Porter , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

The organizational structure of a network is investigated with a simulated precipitation model which does not make use of prior knowledge about the community structure of the network. The result is presented as a structure profile through…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-24 Zhenggang Wang , Kwok Yip Szeto

Many empirical networks display an inherent tendency to cluster, i.e. to form circles of connected nodes. This feature is typically measured by the clustering coefficient (CC). The CC, originally introduced for binary, undirected graphs,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Giorgio Fagiolo

Not all nodes in a network are created equal. Differences and similarities exist at both individual node and group levels. Disentangling single node from group properties is crucial for network modeling and structural inference. Based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Joerg Reichardt , Roberto Alamino , David Saad

Several natural and theoretical networks can be broken down into smaller portions, or subgraphs corresponding to neighborhoods. The more frequent of these neighborhoods can then be understood as motifs of the network, being therefore…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-21 Guilherme S. Domingues , Eric K. Tokuda , Luciano da F. Costa