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ArticleNature communications2016

Competition among networks highlights the power of the weak.

Jaime Iranzo, Javier M Buldú, Jacobo Aguirre

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Article in Nature communications, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jaime IranzoNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
Javier M BuldúLaboratory of Biological Networks, Center for Biomedical Technology (UPM), Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain.
Jacobo AguirreGrupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC), Madrid, Spain.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unpreventable connections between real networked systems have recently called for an examination of percolation, diffusion or synchronization phenomena in multilayer networks. Here we use network science and game theory to explore interactions in networks-of-networks and model these as a game for gaining importance. We propose a viewpoint where networks choose the connection strategies, in contrast with classical approaches where nodes are the active players. Specifically, we investigate how creating paths between networks leads to different Nash equilibria that determine their structural and dynamical properties. In a wide variety of cases, selecting adequate connections leads to a cooperative solution that allows weak networks to overcome the strongest opponent. Counterintuitively, each weak network can induce a global transition to such cooperative configuration regardless of the actions of the strongest network. This power of the weak reveals a critical dominance of the underdogs in the fate of networks-of-networks.

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AlgorithmsGame TheoryModels, TheoreticalNeural Networks, ComputerComputer Communication NetworksHumans

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PMID27841258
PMCPMC5114531

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