The ever-increasing knowledge of the structure of various real-world networks has uncovered their complex multi-mechanism-governed evolution processes. Therefore, a better understanding of the structure and evolution of these networked complex systems requires us to describe such processes in a...

Using the requisition papers of Chinese Nature Science Basic Research in management and information department, we construct the weighted network of research areas (WNRA). In WNRA, two research areas, which is represented by the subject codes, are considered to be connected if they have been...

Disruptions to transportation networks can be very costly. However, managing disruptions and the costs associated with these events, poses some challenges. Transport networks are, in many cases, large and complex. This paper develops a method, based on complex network theory, to analyse...

Recently there has been a tremendous interest in models of networks with a power-law distribution of degree—so-called “scale-free networks.” It has been observed that such networks, normally, have extremely short path-lengths, scaling logarithmically or slower with system size. As an...

Introducing utility to describe the attractions of nodes in this work, we propose and study a simple asymmetrical evolving network model, considering both preferential attachment and random (controlled by probability p). That is, the utility increment Δui≠Δuj when connecting node i to node...

In this paper, by both simulations and theoretical predictions we study two and three node (or degree) correlations in random Apollonian network (RAN), which have small-world and scale-free topologies. Using the rate equation approach under the assumption of continuous degree, we first give the...