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2009 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Characterizing the Structural Complexity of Real-World Complex Networks
verfasst von : Jun Wang, Gregory Provan
Erschienen in: Complex Sciences
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Although recent research has shown that the complexity of a network depends on its structural organization, which is linked to the functional constraints the network must satisfy, there is still no systematic study on how to distinguish topological structure and measure the corresponding structural complexity of complex networks. In this paper, we propose the first consistent framework for distinguishing and measuring the structural complexity of real-world complex networks. In terms of the smallest
d
of the
dK
model with high-order constraints necessary for fitting real networks, we can classify real-world networks into different structural complexity levels. We demonstrate the approach by measuring and classifying a variety of real-world networks, including biological and technological networks, small-world and non-small-world networks, and spatial and non-spatial networks.