Empirical investigation results on weighted and un-weighted assortativity, act degree distribution, degree distribution and node strength distribution of nine real world collaboration networks have been presented. The investigations propose that act degree distribution, degree distribution and...

After Xiao et al. [W.-K. Xiao, J. Ren, F. Qi, Z.W. Song, M.X. Zhu, H.F. Yang, H.Y. Jin, B.-H. Wang, Tao Zhou, Empirical study on clique-degree distribution of networks, Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 037102], in this article we present an investigation on so-called k-cliques, which are defined as...

We propose describing a kind of cooperation–competition systems by node-weighted bipartite graphs. In such systems the nodes can be divided into two types. One expresses a kind of activities, organizations or events, named “acts”; and another expresses the “actors” participating in...

Urban public traffic networks are typical complex systems. Understanding their evolution mechanism attracts much attention in recent years. Here, we propose that the evolution of urban public traffic network can be considered as a game process between two network manipulators, i.e., passengers...

Systems with simultaneous cooperation and competition among the elements are ubiquitous. In spite of their practical importance, knowledge on the evolution mechanism of this class of complex system is still very limited. In this work, by conducting extensive empirical survey to a large number of...

A railway transportation system can be represented by a bipartite network consisting of trains and stations, where a train is connected to all stations where it stops. In this paper, motivated by the resource-allocation process taking place on networks, we design a method to project a Chinese...

By making use of two observing facts for many natural and social networks, i.e., the nodes’ diversity, and the disassortative (or assortative) properties for biological and technological (or social) networks, a simple and elegant model with three kinds of nodes and deterministic selective...

In recent years, the well-developed Vicsek model has attracted more and more attention. Unfortunately, in-depth research on its convergence speed is not yet completed. In this paper, we investigate some key factors governing the convergence speed of the Vicsek model with the assistance of...

By using the random interchanging algorithm, we investigate the relations between average distance, standard deviation of degree distribution and synchronizability of complex networks. We find that both increasing the average distance and magnifying the degree deviation will make the network...

As a typical representation of complex systems studied relatively thoroughly, financial market presents some special details, such as its nonconservation and opinions’ spreading. In this model, agents congregate to form some clusters, which may grow or collapse with the evolution of the...