Ginestra Bianconi

A minimal model for congestion phenomena on complex networks (2009)

De Martino, Daniele, Dall'Asta, Luca, Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

We study a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks, simple enough to get analytical results, but with a very rich phenomenology, presenting continuous, discontinuous as well as hybrid...

The percolation transition in correlated hypergraphs (2009)

Bradde, Serena, Bianconi, Ginestra

Correlations are known to play a crucial role in determining the structure of complex networks. Here we study how their presence affects the computation of the percolation threshold in random...

Entropy measures for complex networks: Toward an information theory of complex topologies (2009)

Anand, Kartik, Bianconi, Ginestra

The quantification of the complexity of networks is, today, a fundamental problem in the physics of complex systems. A possible roadmap to solve the problem is via extending key concepts of...

A minimal model for congestion phenomena on complex networks (2009)

De Martino, Daniele, Dall'Asta, Luca, Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

We study a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks, simple enough to get analytical results, but with a very rich phenomenology, presenting continuous, discontinuous as well as hybrid...

Statistical Mechanics of the Chinese Restaurant Process: Conditioned Path-integral and Finite-size Effects (2009)

Bassetti, Bruno, Zarei, Mina, Lagomarsino, Marco Cosentino, Bianconi, Ginestra

The Pitman-Yor or Chinese Restaurant Process, is a stochastic process that generates partitions following power-law distributions with exponents lower than two, as found in a numerous physical,...

Percolation transition in correlated hypergraphs (2009)

Bradde, Serena, Bianconi, Ginestra

Correlations are known to play a crucial role in determining the structure of complex networks. Here we study how their presence affects the computation of the percolation threshold in random...

Non-neutral theory of biodiversity (2009)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Ferretti, Luca, Franz, Silvio

We present a non-neutral stochastic model for the dynamics taking place in a meta-community ecosystems. The model provides a framework for describing the emergence of multiple ecological scenarios...

Percolation transition and connected components distribution of generalized random network ensembles (2009)

Bradde, Serena, Bianconi, Ginestra

In this work we study the percolation transition and large deviation properties of generalized canonical network ensembles. This new type of random networks have a much more complex structure,...

Congestion phenomena on complex networks (2009)

De Martino, Daniele, Dall'Asta, Luca, Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

We define a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks in order to study the trade-off between topological-based and traffic-based routing strategies. The resulting collective behavior is...

Dynamics of condensation in growing complex networks (2008)

Ferretti, Luca, Bianconi, Ginestra

A condensation transition was predicted for growing technological and social networks evolving by preferential attachment and competing quality of their nodes, as described by the fitness model. When...

How relevant are features for network structure? (2008)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Pin, Paolo, Marsili, Matteo

Networks describe a variety of interacting complex systems in social science, biology and information technology. Usually the nodes of real networks are not only identified by their connections but...

Congestion phenomena on complex networks (2008)

De Martino, Daniele, Dall'Asta, Luca, Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

We define a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks containing the most relevant features of real routing schemes, i.e. a trade--off strategy between topological-based and traffic-based...

On the rich-club effect in dense and weighted networks (2008)

Zlatic, Vinko, Bianconi, Ginestra, Diaz-Guilera, Albert, Garlaschelli, Diego, Rao, Francesco, Caldarelli, Guido

For many complex networks present in nature only a single instance, usually of large size, is available. Any measurement made on this single instance cannot be repeated on different realizations. In...

Spectral properties of complex networks (2008)

Bianconi, Ginestra

We derive the spectral properties of adjacency matrix of complex networks and of their Laplacian by the replica method combined with a dynamical population algorithm. By assuming the order parameter...

Dynamics of condensation in growing complex networks (2008)

Ferretti, Luca, Bianconi, Ginestra

A condensation transition was predicted for growing technological and social networks evolving by preferential attachment and competing quality of their nodes, as described by the fitness model. When...

Flux distribution in metabolic networks close to optimal biomass production (2008)

Bianconi, Ginestra

We study a statistical model describing the steady state distribution of the fluxes in a metabolic network. The resulting model on continuous variables can be solved by the cavity method. In...

Entropies of complex networks with hierarchically constrained topologies (2008)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Coolen, Anthony C. C., Vicente, Conrad J. Perez

The entropy of a hierarchical network topology in an ensemble of sparse random networks with "hidden variables" associated to its nodes, is the log-likelihood that a given network topology is present...

The entropy of network ensembles (2008)

Bianconi, Ginestra

In this paper we generalize the concept of random networks to describe networks with non trivial features by a statistical mechanics approach. This framework is able to describe ensembles of...

Entropies of complex networks with hierarchically constrained topologies (2008)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Coolen, Anthony, Perez-Vicente, Conrad

The entropy of a hierarchical network topology in an ensemble of sparse random networks, with "hidden variables" associated to its nodes, is the log-likelihood that a given network topology is...

Scale-free networks with an exponent less than two (2007)

Seyed-allaei, Hamed, Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

We study scale free simple graphs with an exponent of the degree distribution $\gamma$ less than two. Generically one expects such extremely skewed networks -- which occur very frequently in systems...

Algorithm for counting large directed loops (2007)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Gulbahce, Natali

We derive a Belief-Propagation algorithm for counting large loops in a directed network. We evaluate the distribution of the number of small loops in a directed random network with given degree...

Comparing association network algorithms for reverse engineering of large scale gene regulatory networks: synthetic vs real data (2007)

Soranzo, Nicola, Bianconi, Ginestra, Altafini, Claudio

Motivation: Inferring a gene regulatory network exclusively from microarray expression profiles is a difficult but important task. The aim of this work is to compare the predictive power of some of...

The entropy of randomized network ensembles (2007)

Bianconi, Ginestra

Randomized network ensembles are the null models of real networks and are extensivelly used to compare a real system to a null hypothesis. In this paper we study network ensembles with the same...

Local structure of directed networks (2007)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Gulbahce, Natali, Motter, Adilson E.

Previous work on undirected small-world networks established the paradigm that locally structured networks tend to have high density of short loops. On the other hand, many realistic networks are...

Viable flux distribution in metabolic networks (2007)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Zecchina, Riccardo

The metabolic networks are very well characterized for a large set of organisms, a unique case in within the large-scale biological networks. For this reason they provide a a very interesting...

A statistical mechanics approach for scale-free networks and finite-scale networks (2007)

Bianconi, Ginestra

We present a statistical mechanics approach for the description of complex networks. We first define an energy and an entropy associated to a degree distribution which have a geometrical...

Effects of degree correlations on the loop structure of scale free networks (2006)

Bianconi, Ginestra

In this paper we study the impact of degree correlations in the subgraph statistics of scalefree networks. In particular we consider loops, simple cases of network subgraphs which encode the...

On the flexibility of complex systems (2006)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Mulet, R.

Many complex systems satisfy a set of constraints on their degrees of freedom, and at the same time, they are able to work and adapt to different conditions. Here, we describe the emergence of this...

Degree distribution of complex networks from statistical mechanics principles (2006)

Bianconi, Ginestra

In this paper we describe the emergence of scale-free degree distributions from statistical mechanics principles. We define an energy associated to a degree sequence as the logarithm of the number of...

On the flexibility of complex systems (2006)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Mulet, Roberto

Many complex systems satisfy a set of constraints on their degrees of freedom, and at the same time, they are able to work and adapt to different conditions. Here, we describe the emergence of this...

Number of cliques in random scale-free network ensembles (2006)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

In this paper we calculate the average number of cliques in random scale-free networks. We consider first the hidden variable ensemble and subsequently the Molloy Reed ensemble. In both cases we find...

Multi-asset minority games (2006)

Bianconi, Ginestra, De Martino, Andrea, Ferreira, Fernando F., Marsili, Matteo

We study analytically and numerically Minority Games in which agents may invest in different assets (or markets), considering both the canonical and the grand-canonical versions. We find that the...

Multi-asset minority games (2006)

Bianconi, Ginestra, De Martino, Andrea, Ferreira, Felipe F.

We study analytically and numerically Minority Games in which agents may invest in different assets (or markets), considering both the canonical and the grand-canonical versions. We find that the...

Effects of Tobin Taxes in Minority Game markets (2006)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Galla, Tobias, Marsili, Matteo

We show that the introduction of Tobin taxes in agent-based models of currency markets can lead to a reduction of speculative trading and reduce the magnitude of exchange rate fluctuations at...

Effects of Tobin taxes in minority game markets (2006)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Galla, Tobias

We show that the introduction of Tobin taxes in agent-based models of currency markets can lead to a reduction of speculative trading and reduce the magnitude of exchange rate fluctuations at...

Effect of degree correlations on the loop structure of scale-free networks (2005)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

In this paper we study the impact of degree correlations in the subgraphs statistics of scale-free networks. In particular we consider loops: a simple case of network subgraphs which encode the...

Emergence of large cliques in random scale-free network (2005)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

In a network cliques are fully connected subgraphs that reveal which are the tight communities present in it. Cliques of size c>3 are present in random Erdos and Renyi graphs only in the limit of...

Emergence of large cliques in random scale-free networks (2005)

Bianconi, Ginestra

In a network cliques are fully connected subgraphs that reveal which are the tight communities present in it. Cliques of size c > 3 are present in random Erdös and Renyi graphs only in the limit of...

Critical threshold and dynamics of a general rumor model on complex networks (2005)

Nekovee, Maziar, Moreno, Yamir, Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

We derive mean-field equations that describe the dynamics of a general model of rumor spreading on complex networks, and use analytical and numerical solutions of these equations to examine the...

Scale-free networks with an exponent less than two (2005)

Seyed-allaei, Hamed, Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

We study scale free simple graphs with an exponent of the degree distribution $\gamma$ less than two. Generically one expects such extremely skewed networks -- which occur very frequently in systems...

Ecology of active and passive players and their impact on information selection (2005)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Laureti, Paolo, Yu, Yi-Kou, Zhang, Yi-Cheng

Is visitors’ attendance a fair indicator of a web site's quality? Internet sub-domains are usually characterized by power-law distributions of visits, thus suggesting a rich-get-richer process. If...

Ecology of active and passive players and their impact on information selection (2005)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Laureti, Paolo, Yu, Yi-Kou, Zhang, Yi-Cheng

Is visitors’ attendance a fair indicator of a web site's quality? Internet sub-domains are usually characterized by power-law distributions of visits, thus suggesting a rich-get-richer process. If...

Loops of any size and Hamilton cycles in random scale-free networks (2005)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

Loops are subgraphs responsible for the multiplicity of paths going from one to another generic node in a given network. In this paper we present an analytic approach for the evaluation of the...

Emergence of weight-topology correlations in complex scale-free networks (2004)

Bianconi, Ginestra

Different weighted scale-free networks show weights-topology correlations indicated by the non linear scaling of the node strength with node connectivity. In this paper we show that networks with and...

Loops structure of the Internet at the Autonomous System Level (2004)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Caldarelli, Guido, Capocci, Andrea

We present here a study of the clustering and cycles in the graph of Internet at the Autonomous Systems level. We show that,even if the whole structure is changing with time, the statistical...

Self-organized critical network dynamics (2003)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Marsili, Matteo

We propose a simple model that aims at describing, in a stylized manner, how local breakdowns due unbalances or congestion propagate in real dynamical networks. The model converges to a...

Number of h-cycles in the Internet at the Autonomous Systems level (2003)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Caldarelli, Guido, Capocci, Andrea

We present here a study of the clustering and cycles present in the graph of Internet at the Autonomous Systems level. Even if the whole structure is changing with time, we present some evidence that...

Size of quantum networks (2003)

Bianconi, Ginestra

The metric structure of bosonic scale-free networks and fermionic Cayley-tree networks is analyzed focousing on the directed distance of nodes from the origin. The topology of the netwoks strongly...

Number of loops of size h in growing scale-free networks (2002)

Bianconi, Ginestra, Capocci, Andrea

The hierarchical structure of scale-free networks has been investigated focusing on the scaling of the number $N_h(t)$ of loops of size h as a function of the system size. In particular we have found...

Quantum statistics in complex networks (2002)

Bianconi, Ginestra

In this work we discuss the symmetric construction of bosonic and fermionic networks and we present a case of a network showing a mixed quantum statistics. This model takes into account the different...

Growing Cayley trees described by Fermi distribution (2002)

Bianconi, Ginestra

We introduce a model for growing Cayley trees with thermal noise. The evolution of these hierarchical networks reduces to the Eden model and the Invasion Percolation model in the limit $T\to 0$,...

Mean field solution of the Ising model on a Barabasi-Albert network (2002)

Bianconi, Ginestra

The mean field solution of the Ising model on a Barabasi-Albert scale-free network with ferromagnetic coupling between linked spins is presented. The critical temperature $T_c$ for the ferromagnetic...

Quantum statistics in complex networks / (2002)

Bianconi, Ginestra.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2002.

Non-perturbative renormalization group approach to surface growth (1999)

Munoz, Miguel Angel, Bianconi, Ginestra, Castellano, Claudio, Gabrielli, Andrea, Marsili, Matteo, Pietronero, Luciano

We present a recently introduced real space renormalization group (RG) approach to the study of surface growth. The method permits us to obtain the properties of the KPZ strong coupling fixed point,...

Assessing the relevance of node features for network structure

Bianconi, Ginestra, Pin, Paolo, Marsili, Matteo

Networks describe a variety of interacting complex systems in social science, biology, and information technology. Usually the nodes of real networks are identified not only by their connections but...

Effects of Tobin Taxes in Minority Game markets

Ginestra Bianconi, Tobias Galla, Matteo Marsili

We show that the introduction of Tobin taxes in agent-based models of currency markets can lead to a reduction of speculative trading and reduce the magnitude of exchange rate fluctuations at...

Multi-asset minority games

Ginestra Bianconi, Andrea De Martino, Fernando F. Ferreira, Matteo Marsili

We study analytically and numerically Minority Games in which agents may invest in different assets (or markets), considering both the canonical and the grand-canonical versions. We find that the...

Effects of Tobin taxes in minority game markets

Bianconi, Ginestra, Galla, Tobias, Marsili, Matteo, Pin, Paolo

We show that the introduction of Tobin taxes in agent-based models of currency markets can lead to a reduction of both speculative trading and the magnitude of exchange rate fluctuations at...