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Automatic generation of adaptive network models based on similarity to the desired complex network

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  • Attar, Niousha
  • Aliakbary, Sadegh
  • Nezhad, Zahra Hosseini

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Complex networks have become powerful mechanisms for studying a variety of real-world systems. Consequently, many human-designed network models are proposed that reproduce nontrivial properties of complex networks, such as long-tail degree distribution or high clustering coefficient. Therefore, we may utilize network models in order to generate graphs similar to desired networks. However, a desired network structure may deviate from emerging structure of any generative model, because no selected single model may support all the needed properties of the target graph and instead, each network model reflects a subset of the required features. In contrast to the classical approach of network modeling, an appropriate modern network model should adapt the desired features of the target network. In this paper, we propose an automatic approach for constructing network models that are adaptive to the desired network features. We employ Genetic Algorithms in order to evolve network models based on the characteristics of the target networks. The experimental evaluations show that our proposed framework, called NetMix, results network models that outperform state-of-the-art baseline models according to the compliance with the desired features of the target networks.

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  • Attar, Niousha & Aliakbary, Sadegh & Nezhad, Zahra Hosseini, 2020. "Automatic generation of adaptive network models based on similarity to the desired complex network," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 545(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:545:y:2020:i:c:s037843711931876x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.123353
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