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Deterministic walks in random networks: an application to thesaurus graphs
In a landscape composed of N randomly distributed sites in Euclidean space, a
walker (``tourist'') goes to the nearest one that has not been visited in the
last \tau steps. This procedure leads to trajectories composed of a transient
part and a final cyclic attractor of period p. The tourist walk presents
universal aspects with respect to \tau and can be done in a wide range of
networks that can be viewed as ordinal neighborhood graphs. As an example, we
show that graphs defined by thesaurus dictionaries share some of the
statistical properties of low dimensional (d=2) Euclidean graphs and are easily
distinguished from random graphs. This approach furnishes complementary
information to the usual clustering coefficient and mean minimum separation
length.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, revised version submited to Physica A, corrected
references to figure
Complex network classification using partially self-avoiding deterministic walks
Complex networks have attracted increasing interest from various fields of
science. It has been demonstrated that each complex network model presents
specific topological structures which characterize its connectivity and
dynamics. Complex network classification rely on the use of representative
measurements that model topological structures. Although there are a large
number of measurements, most of them are correlated. To overcome this
limitation, this paper presents a new measurement for complex network
classification based on partially self-avoiding walks. We validate the
measurement on a data set composed by 40.000 complex networks of four
well-known models. Our results indicate that the proposed measurement improves
correct classification of networks compared to the traditional ones
Role of fractal dimension in random walks on scale-free networks
Fractal dimension is central to understanding dynamical processes occurring
on networks; however, the relation between fractal dimension and random walks
on fractal scale-free networks has been rarely addressed, despite the fact that
such networks are ubiquitous in real-life world. In this paper, we study the
trapping problem on two families of networks. The first is deterministic, often
called -flowers; the other is random, which is a combination of
-flower and -flower and thus called hybrid networks. The two
network families display rich behavior as observed in various real systems, as
well as some unique topological properties not shared by other networks. We
derive analytically the average trapping time for random walks on both the
-flowers and the hybrid networks with an immobile trap positioned at an
initial node, i.e., a hub node with the highest degree in the networks. Based
on these analytical formulae, we show how the average trapping time scales with
the network size. Comparing the obtained results, we further uncover that
fractal dimension plays a decisive role in the behavior of average trapping
time on fractal scale-free networks, i.e., the average trapping time decreases
with an increasing fractal dimension.Comment: Definitive version published in European Physical Journal
Switcher-random-walks: a cognitive-inspired mechanism for network exploration
Semantic memory is the subsystem of human memory that stores knowledge of
concepts or meanings, as opposed to life specific experiences. The organization
of concepts within semantic memory can be understood as a semantic network,
where the concepts (nodes) are associated (linked) to others depending on
perceptions, similarities, etc. Lexical access is the complementary part of
this system and allows the retrieval of such organized knowledge. While
conceptual information is stored under certain underlying organization (and
thus gives rise to a specific topology), it is crucial to have an accurate
access to any of the information units, e.g. the concepts, for efficiently
retrieving semantic information for real-time needings. An example of an
information retrieval process occurs in verbal fluency tasks, and it is known
to involve two different mechanisms: -clustering-, or generating words within a
subcategory, and, when a subcategory is exhausted, -switching- to a new
subcategory. We extended this approach to random-walking on a network
(clustering) in combination to jumping (switching) to any node with certain
probability and derived its analytical expression based on Markov chains.
Results show that this dual mechanism contributes to optimize the exploration
of different network models in terms of the mean first passage time.
Additionally, this cognitive inspired dual mechanism opens a new framework to
better understand and evaluate exploration, propagation and transport phenomena
in other complex systems where switching-like phenomena are feasible.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures. Accepted in "International Journal of
Bifurcations and Chaos": Special issue on "Modelling and Computation on
Complex Networks
Influences of degree inhomogeneity on average path length and random walks in disassortative scale-free networks
Various real-life networks exhibit degree correlations and heterogeneous
structure, with the latter being characterized by power-law degree distribution
, where the degree exponent describes the extent
of heterogeneity. In this paper, we study analytically the average path length
(APL) of and random walks (RWs) on a family of deterministic networks,
recursive scale-free trees (RSFTs), with negative degree correlations and
various , with an aim to explore the
impacts of structure heterogeneity on APL and RWs. We show that the degree
exponent has no effect on APL of RSFTs: In the full range of
, behaves as a logarithmic scaling with the number of network nodes
(i.e. ), which is in sharp contrast to the well-known double
logarithmic scaling () previously obtained for uncorrelated
scale-free networks with . In addition, we present that some
scaling efficiency exponents of random walks are reliant on degree exponent
.Comment: The definitive verion published in Journal of Mathematical Physic
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