Evolving complex networks: A model for the integration/segregation phenomena

摘要

We study the integration/segregation problem from the viewpoint of complex networks, but considering that the network topology is not static but there is an adaptive mechanism acting on the links. Our goal is to identify under which conditions network synchronization occurs and what structural properties are present in the network topology when this happens. In particular, we experimentally compute the main descriptive structural properties of the network when it has been modified with the proposed mechanism, and it is elucidated the relationship between these results and the observed synchronization at both the local and global scale. Our main finding is that modularity, a global feature, can naturally emerge in a network when evolving links are considered, that is, by means of dynamical properties at the local scale.