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Long-range connections, real-world networks and rates of diffusion
Tanya Araújo, R. Vilela Mendes
Long range connections play an essential role in dynamical processes on networks, on the processing of information in biological networks, on the structure of social and economical…
Long-range connections and mixed diffusion in fractional networks
R. Vilela Mendes, Tanya Araújo
Networks with long-range connections obeying a distance-dependent power law of sufficiently small exponent display superdiffusion, Lévy flights and robustness properties very diffe…
Fractional networks, the new structure
R. Vilela Mendes
Real world networks have, for a long time, been modelled by scale-free networks, which have many sparsely connected nodes and a few highly connected ones (the hubs). However, both…
Characterizing correlations and synchronization in collective dynamics
Carlos Aguirre, R. Vilela Mendes
Synchronization, that occurs both for non-chaotic and chaotic systems, is a striking phenomenon with many practical implications in natural phenomena. However, even before synchron…
Deterministic Bak-Sneppen model. Lyapunov spectrum and avalanches as return times
R. Vilela Mendes
A deterministic version of the Bak-Sneppen model is studied. The role of the Lyapunov spectrum in the onset of scale-free behavior is established and avalanches are interpreted as…
Network dependence of strong reciprocity
R. Vilela Mendes
Experimental evidence suggests that human decisions involve a mixture of self-interest and internalized social norms which cannot be accounted for by the Nash equilibrium behavior…
Using Immunology Principles for Anomaly Detection in Electrical Systems
P. J. Costa Branco, J. A. Dente, R. Vilela Mendes
The immune system is a cognitive system of complexity comparable to the brain and its computational algorithms suggest new solutions to engineering problems or new ways of looking…
Structure-generating mechanisms in agent-based models
R. Vilela Mendes
The emergence of dynamical structures in multi-agent systems is analysed. Three different mechanisms are identified, namely: (1) sensitive-dependence and convex coupling, (2) sensi…
Function and form in networks of interacting agents
Tanya Araujo, R. Vilela Mendes
The main problem we address in this paper is whether function determines form when a society of agents organizes itself for some purpose or whether the organizing method is more im…