Damage Spreading in Spatial and Small-world Random Boolean Networks

Details Damage Spreading in Spatial and Small-world Random Boolean Networks Damage Spreading in Spatial and Small-world Random Boolean Networks

2009-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4052v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

8 pages, 8 figures

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The study of the response of complex dynamical social, biological, or technological networks to external perturbations has numerous applications. Random Boolean Networks (RBNs) are commonly used a simple generic model for certain dynamics of complex systems. Traditionally, RBNs are interconnected randomly and without considering any spatial extension and arrangement of the links and nodes. However, most real-world networks are spatially extended and arranged with regular, power-law, small-world, or other non-random connections. Here we explore the RBN network topology between extreme local connections, random small-world, and pure random networks, and study the damage spreading with small perturbations. We find that spatially local connections change the scaling of the relevant component at very low connectivities ($\bar{K} \ll 1$) and that the critical connectivity of stability $K_s$ changes compared to random networks. At higher $\bar{K}$, this scaling remains unchanged. We also show that the relevant component of spatially local networks scales with a power-law as the system size N increases, but with a different exponent for local and small-world networks. The scaling behaviors are obtained by finite-size scaling. We further investigate the wiring cost of the networks. From an engineering perspective, our new findings provide the key design trade-offs between damage spreading (robustness), the network's wiring cost, and the network's communication characteristics.

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