Communicability reveals a transition to coordinated behavior in multiplex networks
Estrada, Ernesto and Gomez-Gardenes, Jesus (2014) Communicability reveals a transition to coordinated behavior in multiplex networks. Physical Review E, 89. 042819. ISSN 2470-0053 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.042819)
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Abstract
We analyse the flow of information in multiplex networks by means of the communicability function. First, we generalize this measure from its definition from simple graphs to multiplex networks. Then, we study its relevance for the analysis of real-world systems by studying a social multiplex where information flows using formal/informal channels and an air transportation system where the layers represent different air companies. Accordingly, the communicability, which is essential for the good performance of these complex systems, emerges at a systemic operation point in the multiplex where the performance of the layers operates in a coordinated way very differently from the state represented by a collection of unconnected networks.
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Estrada, Ernesto ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3066-7418 and Gomez-Gardenes, Jesus;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 50881 Dates: DateEvent2014Published30 April 2014Published Online15 April 2014AcceptedSubjects: Science > Mathematics > Probabilities. Mathematical statistics Department: Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 23 Dec 2014 14:17 Last modified: 30 Nov 2024 01:07 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/50881