Researchers develop method that shows diverse complex networks have similar skeletons
Friday, June 1, 2012 - 19:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Northwestern University researchers are the first to discover that very different complex networks -- ranging from global air traffic to neural networks -- share very similar backbones. By stripping each network down to its essential nodes and links, they found each network possesses a skeleton and these skeletons share common features, much like vertebrates do.