Structural efficiency of percolated landscapes in flow networks.

ABSTRACT: The large-scale structure of complex systems is intimately related to their functionality and evolution. In particular, global transport processes in flow networks rely on the presence of directed pathways from input to output nodes and edges, which organize in macroscopic connected components. However, the precise relation between such structures and functional or evolutionary aspects remains to be understood. Here, we investigate which are the constraints that the global structure of directed networks imposes on transport phenomena. We define quantitatively under minimal assumptions the structural efficiency of networks to determine how robust communication between the core and the peripheral components through interface edges could be. Furthermore, we assess that optimal topologies in t

SUBMITTER: Serrano MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2575234 | biostudies-literature | 2008

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature