Revealing networks from dynamics: An introduction

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Contributors

  • Marc Timme - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, University of Göttingen, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (Author)
  • Jose Casadiego - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Author)

Abstract

What can we learn from the collective dynamics of a complex network about its interaction topology? Taking the perspective from nonlinear dynamics, we briefly review recent progress on how to infer structural connectivity (direct interactions) from accessing the dynamics of the units. Potential applications range from interaction networks in physics, to chemical and metabolic reactions, protein and gene regulatory networks as well as neural circuits in biology and electric power grids or wireless sensor networks in engineering. Moreover, we briefly mention some standard ways of inferring effective or functional connectivity.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number343001
JournalJournal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Volume47
Issue number34
Publication statusPublished - 11 Aug 2014
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-5956-3137/work/142242473

Keywords

Keywords

  • complex networks, effective connectivity, functional connectivity, network dynamics, network inference, network reconstruction, network topology, structural connectivity, synchrony