Constructing Robust Cooperative Networks using a Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm.

ABSTRACT: The design and construction of network structures oriented towards different applications has attracted much attention recently. The existing studies indicated that structural heterogeneity plays different roles in promoting cooperation and robustness. Compared with rewiring a predefined network, it is more flexible and practical to construct new networks that satisfy the desired properties. Therefore, in this paper, we study a method for constructing robust cooperative networks where the only constraint is that the number of nodes and links is predefined. We model this network construction problem as a multi-objective optimization problem and propose a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, named MOEA-Net_rc, to generate the desired networks from arbitrary initializations. The

SUBMITTER: Wang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5278550 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature