Response of scale-free networks with community structure to external stimuli
- The response of scale-free networks with community structure to external stimuli is studied. By disturbing some nodes with different strategies, it is shown that the robustness of this kind of network can be enhanced due to the existence of communities in the networks. Some of the response patterns are found to coincide with topological communities. We show that such phenomena also occur in the cat brain network which is an example of a scale-free like network with community structure. Our results provide insights into the relationship between network topology and the functional organization in complex networks from another viewpoint.
| Author details: | Ye Wu, Ping Li, Maoyin Chen, Jinghua Xiao, Jürgen KurthsORCiDGND |
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| URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03784371 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2009.03.037 |
| ISSN: | 0378-4371 |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2009 |
| Publication year: | 2009 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/25 |
| Source: | Physica A. - ISSN 0378-4371. - 388 (2009), 14, S. 2987 - 2994 |
| Organizational units: | Zentrale und wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen / Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Dynamik komplexer Systeme |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
