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physics.soc-ph2024★ 4 cited

Observing network dynamics through sentinel nodes

Neil G. MacLaren, Baruch Barzel, Naoki Masuda

A fundamental premise of statistical physics is that the particles in a physical system are interchangeable, and hence the state of each specific component is representative of the…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 13 cited

Critical behavior of cascading failures in overloaded networks

Ignacio A. Perez, Dana Ben Porath, Cristian E. La Rocca +2

While network abrupt breakdowns due to overloads and cascading failures have been studied extensively, the critical exponents and the universality class of such phase transitions h…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 6 cited

Economical-Epidemiological Analysis of the Coffee Trees Rust Pandemic

Teddy Lazebnik, Ariel Rosenfeld, Labib Shami

Coffee leaf rust is a prevalent botanical disease that causes a worldwide reduction in coffee supply and its quality, leading to immense economic losses. While several pandemic int…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 2 cited

The effect of cities and distance on COVID-19 spreading in the United States

Troy McMahon, Shlomo Havlin, Lazaros K. Gallos

The COVID-19 pandemic has evolved over time through multiple spatial and temporal dynamics. The varying extent of interactions among different geographical areas can result to a co…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 29 cited

Why are there six degrees of separation in a social network?

Ivan Samoylenko, David Aleja, Eva Primo +11

A wealth of evidence shows that real world networks are endowed with the small-world property i.e., that the maximal distance between any two of their nodes scales logarithmically…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 1 cited

External field and critical exponents in controlling dynamics on complex networks

Hillel Sanhedrai, Shlomo Havlin

Dynamical processes on complex networks, ranging from biological, technological and social systems, show phase transitions between distinct global states of the system. Often, such…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 3 cited

Improving robustness of spatial networks via reinforced nodes

Nir Vaturi, Bnaya Gross, Shlomo Havlin

Many real-world networks are embedded in space, and their resilience in the presence of reinforced nodes has not been studied. Here we model such networks using a spatial network m…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 551 cited

Dynamics on higher-order networks: A review

Soumen Majhi, Matjaz Perc, Dibakar Ghosh

Network science has evolved into an indispensable platform for studying complex systems. But recent research has identified limits of classical networks, where links connect pairs…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 1 cited

Epidemics on evolving networks with varying degrees

Hillel Sanhedrai, Shlomo Havlin

Epidemics on complex networks is a widely investigated topic in the last few years, mainly due to the last pandemic events. Usually, real contact networks are dynamic, hence much e…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 11 cited

Percolation on spatial anisotropic networks

Ouriel Gotesdyner, Bnaya Gross, Dana Vaknin Ben Porath +1

Many realistic systems such as infrastructures are characterized by spatial structure and anisotropic alignment. Here we propose and study a model for dealing with such characteris…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 11 cited

Cascading failures in isotropic and anisotropic spatial networks induced by localized attacks and overloads

I. A. Perez, D. Vaknin Ben Porath, C. E. La Rocca +3

In this paper we study the Motter-Lai model of cascading failures induced by overloads in both isotropic and anisotropic spatial networks, generated by placing nodes in a square la…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 175 cited

The synchronized dynamics of time-varying networks

Dibakar Ghosh, Mattia Frasca, Alessandro Rizzo +4

Over the past two decades, complex network theory provided the ideal framework for investigating the intimate relationships between the topological properties characterizing the wi…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 4 cited

Optimization of robustness based on reinforced nodes in a modular network

Yael Kfir-Cohen, Dana Vaknin, Shlomo Havlin

Many systems such as critical infrastructure exhibit a modular structure with many links within the modules and few links between them. One approach to increase the robustness of t…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 58 cited

Contagion in simplicial complexes

Z. Li, Z. Deng, Z. Han +3

The propagation of information in social, biological and technological systems represents a crucial component in their dynamic behavior. When limited to pairwise interactions, a ra…

physics.soc-ph2021

Cascading failures in anisotropic interdependent networks of spatial modular structures

Dana Vaknin, Amir Bashan, Lidia A. Braunstein +2

The structure of real-world multilayer infrastructure systems usually exhibits anisotropy due to constraints of the embedding space. For example, geographical features like mountai…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 6 cited

Impact of food distribution on lifetime of a forager with or without sense of smell

Hillel Sanhedrai, Yafit Maayan

Modeling foraging via basic models is a problem that has been recently investigated from several points of view. However, understanding the effect of the spatial distribution of fo…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 169 cited

Statistical physics approaches to the complex Earth system

Jingfang Fan, Jun Meng, Josef Ludescher +5

Global climate change, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying natural disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear feedbacks, strategi…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 10 cited

Interdependent transport via percolation backbones in spatial networks

Bnaya Gross, Ivan Bonamassa, Shlomo Havlin

The functionality of nodes in a network is often described by the structural feature of belonging to the giant component. However, when dealing with problems like transport, a more…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 126 cited

Cascading Failures in Complex Networks

Lucas D. Valdez, Louis Shekhtman, Cristian E. La Rocca +5

Cascading failure is a potentially devastating process that spreads on real-world complex networks and can impact the integrity of wide-ranging infrastructures, natural systems, an…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 73 cited

Growing scale-free simplices

K. Kovalenko, I. Sendiña-Nadal, N. Khalil +6

The past two decades have seen significant successes in our understanding of complex networked systems, from the mapping of real-world social, biological and technological networks…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 38 cited

Efficient network immunization under limited knowledge

Yangyang Liu, Hillel Sanhedrai, GaoGao Dong +4

Targeted immunization or attacks of large-scale networks has attracted significant attention by the scientific community. However, in real-world scenarios, knowledge and observatio…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 92 cited

Spatio-temporal propagation of COVID-19 pandemics

Bnaya Gross, Zhiguo Zheng, Shiyan Liu +5

The new coronavirus known as COVID-19 is spread world-wide since December 2019. Without any vaccination or medicine, the means of controlling it are limited to quarantine and socia…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 9 cited

Two transitions in spatial modular networks

Bnaya Gross, Dana Vaknin, Sergey V. Buldyrev +1

Understanding the resilience of infrastructures such as transportation network has significant importance for our daily life. Recently, a homogeneous spatial network model was deve…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 4 cited

Distance Distribution in Extreme Modular Networks

Eitan Asher, Hillel Sanhedrai, Nagendra K. Panduranga +2

Modularity is a key organizing principle in real-world large-scale complex networks. Many real-world networks exhibit modular structures such as transportation infrastructures, com…