scholarly journals Examination of Chaotic Structures in Semiconductor or Alloy Voltage Time-Series: A Complex Network Approach for the Case of TlInTe2

Physics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 624-639
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Tsiotas ◽  
Lykourgos Magafas ◽  
Michael P. Hanias
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Graph Algorithm ◽  
Differential Resistance ◽  
Visibility Graph ◽  
Characteristic Region ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Complex Network Analysis ◽  
Voltage Oscillation

This paper proposes a method for examining chaotic structures in semiconductor or alloy voltage oscillation time-series, and focuses on the case of the TlInTe2 semiconductor. The available voltage time-series are characterized by instabilities in negative differential resistance in the current–voltage characteristic region, and are primarily chaotic in nature. The analysis uses a complex network analysis of the time-series and applies the visibility graph algorithm to transform the available time-series into a graph so that the topological properties of the graph can be studied instead of the source time-series. The results reveal a hybrid lattice-like configuration and a major hierarchical structure corresponding to scale-free characteristics in the topology of the visibility graph, which is in accordance with the default hybrid chaotic and semi-periodic structure of the time-series. A novel conceptualization of community detection based on modularity optimization is applied to the available time-series and reveals two major communities that are able to be related to the pair-wise attractor of the voltage oscillations’ phase portrait of the TlInTe2 time-series. Additionally, the network analysis reveals which network measures are more able to preserve the chaotic properties of the source time-series. This analysis reveals metric information that is able to supplement the qualitative phase-space information. Overall, this paper proposes a complex network analysis of the time-series as a method for dealing with the complexity of semiconductor and alloy physics.

scholarly journals The Effect of Anti-COVID-19 Policies on the Evolution of the Disease: A Complex Network Analysis of the Successful Case of Greece

Physics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Tsiotas ◽  
Lykourgos Magafas
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Graph Algorithm ◽  
Visibility Graph ◽  
Successful Case ◽  
Power Pattern ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Good Policy ◽  
Of Greece

Within the context of Greece promising a success story in the fight against the disease, this paper proposes a novel method for studying the evolution of the Greek COVID-19 infection curve in relation to the anti-COVID-19 policies applied to control the pandemic. Based on the ongoing spread of COVID-19 and the insufficient data for applying classic time-series approaches, the analysis builds on the visibility graph algorithm to study the Greek COVID-19 infection curve as a complex network. By using the modularity optimization algorithm, the generated visibility graph is divided into communities defining periods of different connectivity in the time-series body. These periods reveal a sequence of different typologies in the evolution of the disease, starting with a power pattern, where a second order polynomial (U-shaped) pattern intermediates, being followed by a couple of exponential patterns, and ending up with a current logarithmic pattern revealing that the evolution of the Greek COVID-19 infection curve tends towards saturation. In terms of Gaussian modeling, this successive compression of the COVID-19 infection curve into five parts implies that the pandemic in Greece is about to reach the second (decline) half of the bell-shaped distribution. The network analysis also illustrates stability of hubs and instability of medium and low-degree nodes, implying a low probability of meeting maximum (infection) values in the future and high uncertainty in the variability of other values below the average. The overall approach contributes to the scientific research by proposing a novel method for the structural decomposition of a time-series into periods, which allows removing from the series the disconnected past-data facilitating better forecasting, and provides insights of good policy and decision-making practices and management that may help other countries improve their performance in the war against COVID-19.

scholarly journals A Study on Differences between Simplified and Traditional Chinese Based on Complex Network Analysis of the Word Co-Occurrence Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Zhongqiang Jiang ◽  
Dongmei Zhao ◽  
Jiangbin Zheng ◽  
Yidong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Small World ◽  
Motif Analysis ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Complex Network Analysis ◽  
Simplified Chinese ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Corpus Size ◽  
Global Understanding

Currently, most work on comparing differences between simplified and traditional Chinese only focuses on the character or lexical level, without taking the global differences into consideration. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes to use complex network analysis of word co-occurrence networks, which have been successfully applied to the language analysis research and can tackle global characters and explore the differences between simplified and traditional Chinese. Specially, we first constructed a word co-occurrence network for simplified and traditional Chinese using selected news corpora. Then, the complex network analysis methods were performed, including network statistics analysis, kernel lexicon comparison, and motif analysis, to gain a global understanding of these networks. After that, the networks were compared based on the properties obtained. Through comparison, we can obtain three interesting results: first, the co-occurrence networks of simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese are both small-world and scale-free networks. However, given the same corpus size, the co-occurrence networks of traditional Chinese tend to have more nodes, which may be due to a large number of one-to-many character/word mappings from simplified Chinese to traditional Chinese; second, since traditional Chinese retains more ancient Chinese words and uses fewer weak verbs, the traditional Chinese kernel lexicons have more entries than the simplified Chinese kernel lexicons; third, motif analysis shows that there is no difference between the simplified Chinese network and the corresponding traditional Chinese network, which means that simplified and traditional Chinese are semantically consistent.

Complex network analysis of time series

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 (5) ◽  
pp. 50001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong-Ke Gao ◽  
Michael Small ◽  
Jürgen Kurths
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Complex Network Analysis ◽  
Analysis Of Time Series

scholarly journals Analyzing Levels of Concern About Joint Punishment for Dishonesty Using the Visibility Graph Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiqiang Qu ◽  
Yujie Zhang ◽  
Fan Li
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Topological Structure ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Graph Algorithm ◽  
Visibility Graph ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Central Node ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Search Index

Joint punishment for dishonesty is an important means of administrative regulation. This research analyzed the dynamic characteristics of time series data from the Baidu search index using the keywords “joint punishment for dishonesty” based on a visibility graph network. Applying a visibility graph algorithm, time series data from the Baidu Index was transformed into complex networks, with parameters calculated to analyze the topological structure. Results showed differences in the use of joint punishment for dishonesty in certain provinces by calculating the parameters of the time series network from January 1, 2020 to May 27, 2021; it was also shown that most of the networks were scale-free. Finally, the results of K-means clustering showed that the 31 provinces (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) can be divided into four types. Meanwhile, by analyzing the national Baidu Index data from 2020 to May 2021, the period of the time series data and the influence range of the central node were found.

scholarly journals An electrostatics method for converting a time-series into a weighted complex network

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Tsiotas ◽  
Lykourgos Magafas ◽  
Panos Argyrakis
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
Weighted Graph ◽  
Graph Algorithm ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Visibility Graph ◽  
Structural Relevance ◽  
Original Time ◽  
Electrically Charged

AbstractThis paper proposes a new method for converting a time-series into a weighted graph (complex network), which builds on electrostatics in physics. The proposed method conceptualizes a time-series as a series of stationary, electrically charged particles, on which Coulomb-like forces can be computed. This allows generating electrostatic-like graphs associated with time-series that, additionally to the existing transformations, can be also weighted and sometimes disconnected. Within this context, this paper examines the structural similarity between five different types of time-series and their associated graphs that are generated by the proposed algorithm and the visibility graph, which is currently the most popular algorithm in the literature. The analysis compares the source (original) time-series with the node-series generated by network measures (that are arranged into the node-ordering of the source time-series), in terms of a linear trend, chaotic behaviour, stationarity, periodicity, and cyclical structure. It is shown that the proposed electrostatic graph algorithm generates graphs with node-measures that are more representative of the structure of the source time-series than the visibility graph. This makes the proposed algorithm more natural rather than algebraic, in comparison with existing physics-defined methods. The overall approach also suggests a methodological framework for evaluating the structural relevance between the source time-series and their associated graphs produced by any possible transformation.

scholarly journals A Visibility Graph Approach to CNY Exchange Rate Networks and Characteristic Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can-Zhong Yao ◽  
Ji-Nan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Small World ◽  
Graph Algorithm ◽  
Visibility Graph ◽  
Characteristic Analysis ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Us Dollar ◽  
Path Lengths ◽  
Time Point

We find that exchange rate networks are significantly similar from the perspective of topological structure, though with relatively great differences in fluctuation characteristics from perspective of exchange rate time series. First, we transform central parity rate time series of US dollar, Euro, Yen, and Sterling against CNY into exchange rate networks with visibility graph algorithm and find consistent topological characteristics in four exchange rate networks, with their average path lengths 5 and average clustering coefficients 0.7. Further, we reveal that all four transformed exchange rate networks show hierarchical structure and small-world and scale-free properties, with their hierarchy indexes 0.5 and power exponents 1.5. Both of the US dollar network and Sterling network exhibit assortative mixing features, while the Euro network and Yen network exhibit disassortative mixing features. Finally, we research community structure of exchange rate networks and uncover the fact that the communities are actually composed by large amounts of continuous time point fractions and small amounts of discrete time point fractions. In this way, we can observe that the spread of time series values corresponding to nodes inside communities is significantly lower than the spread of those values corresponding to nodes of the whole networks.

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