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Abstract | ||
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The coexistence of multiple types of interactions within social, technological and biological networks has moved the focus of the physics of complex systems towards a multiplex description of the interactions between their constituents. This novel approach has unveiled that the multiplex nature of complex systems has strong influence in the emergence of collective states and their critical properties. Here we address an important issue that is intrinsic to the coexistence of multiple means of interactions within a network: their competition. To this aim, we study a two-layer multiplex in which the activity of users can be localized in each of the layers or shared between them, favouring that neighbouring nodes within a layer focus their activity on the same layer. This framework mimics the coexistence and competition of multiple communication channels, in a way that the prevalence of a particular communication platform emerges as a result of the localization of user activity in one single interaction layer. Our results indicate that there is a transition from localization (use of a preferred layer) to delocalization (combined usage of both layers) and that the prevalence of a particular layer (in the localized state) depends on the structural properties. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1098/rsta.2015.0117 | PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
complex networks,multilayer and interconnected networks,multiplex network,competition | Complex system,Nanotechnology,Systems theory,Biological network,Computer communication networks,Multiplex,Communication channel,Complex network,Classical mechanics,Physics,Distributed computing | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
373 | 2056 | 1364-503X |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.48 | 6 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes | 1 | 813 | 46.68 |
| Manlio De Domenico | 2 | 267 | 18.27 |
| gerardo gutierrez | 3 | 4 | 0.48 |
| Alexandre Arenas | 4 | 211 | 18.40 |
| Sergio Gómez | 5 | 56 | 5.82 |