dc.contributor.author
Casiraghi, Giona
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Garas, Antonios
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Schweitzer, Frank
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2020-01-20T12:24:24Z
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2020-01-17T14:44:25Z
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2020-01-20T12:24:24Z
dc.date.issued
2019-11-08
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/391570
dc.description.abstract
We consider a multi-layer network with two layers, $\mathcal{L}_{1}$, $\mathcal{L}_{2}$. Their intra-layer topology shows a scale-free degree distribution and a core-periphery structure. A nested structure describes the inter-layer topology, i.e., some nodes from $\mathcal{L}_{1}$, the generalists, have many links to nodes in $\mathcal{L}_{2}$, specialists only have a few. This structure is verified by analyzing two empirical networks from ecology and economics. To probe the robustness of the multi-layer network, we remove nodes from $\mathcal{L}_{1}$ with their inter- and intra-layer links and measure the impact on the size of the largest connected component, $F_{2}$, in $\mathcal{L}_{2}$, which we take as a robustness measure. We test different attack scenarios by preferably removing peripheral or core nodes. We also vary the intra-layer coupling between generalists and specialists, to study their impact on the robustness of the multi-layer network. We find that some combinations of attack scenario and intra-layer coupling lead to very low robustness values, whereas others d emonstrate high robustness of the multi-layer network because of the intra-layer links. Our results shed new light on the robustness of bipartite networks, which consider only inter-layer, but no intra-layer links.
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en
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Cornell University
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dc.title
Probing the robustness of nested multi-layer networks
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Working Paper
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arXiv
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1911.03277
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20 p.
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ethz.identifier.arxiv
1911.03277
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Ithaca, NY
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published
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67472475
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2020-01-17T14:44:33Z
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