The shift towards an energy grid dominated by prosumers (consumers and producers of energy) will inevitably have repercussions on the electricity distribution infrastructure. Today the grid is a hierarchical one delivering energy from large scale facilities to end-users. Tomorrow it will be a...

Identifying influential spreaders is an important issue in understanding the dynamics of information diffusion in complex networks. The k-shell index, which is the topological location of a node in a network, is a more efficient measure at capturing the spreading ability of a node than are the...

To obtain an efficient diffusion process is an intriguing and important issue in the study of dynamical behaviors on real networks. Most previous studies are mainly focused on the analysis based on the random walk strategy, whose entropy rate is bounded by the logarithm of the largest node...

The probability of two nodes to be linked is related to their similarities in the network. Based on statistical inference, a network-structure similarity index, therefore, is proposed to find the potential links. This index quantifies the effects of the node communities on these links. And an...

Behaviors of complex networks under intentional attacks guided by degree (degree attack) have been extensively studied. However, little is known about the behaviors of these networks under intentional attacks guided by damage (damage attack), in which adversaries choose the vertex with the...

Sentiment contagion such as the spread of panic in emergencies is a common phenomenon in human society. Considering the difference between sentiment contagion and epidemic contagion, we define the transition probabilities of the binary emotional state (optimism, pessimism) and establish a...

In this paper, we propose a pinning synchronization control scheme in complex networks with non-delay and delay couplings, which uses two switched periods to provide intermittent control. Criteria ensuring global exponential synchronization are obtained based on strict mathematical proofs....

In recent years, bipartite-networks-based recommendations have attracted the attention of many researchers. Many of them are committed to improving the recommendation algorithms such as network-based inference (NBI) or probability spreading (ProbS). However, usually one or two parameters are...

This paper proposes a numerical model of the network of two-Chinese-character compound words (two-character network, for short). In this network, a Chinese character is a node and a two-Chinese-character compound word links two nodes. The basic framework of the model is that an important...

Airport network has a nontrivial impact on shaping the development of a country or region, and decision makers or researchers can benefit from its evolution characteristics. This paper presents an exploratory analysis on the evolution of the US airport network from 1990 to 2010. Generally, we...