Network-based approach to explore basin network comparing observed and satellite dataset

Author(s):  
Mayuri Gadhawe ◽  
Ravi Kumar Guntu ◽  
Ankit Agarwal

<p>Complex network is a relatively young, multidisciplinary field with an objective to unravel the spatiotemporal interaction in natural processes. Though network theory has become a very important paradigm in many fields, the applications in the hydrology field are still at an emerging stage.  In this study, we employed the Pearson correlation coefficient and Spearman correlation coefficient as a similarity measure with varying threshold ranges to construct the precipitation network of the Ganga River Basin (GRB). Ground-based observed dataset (IMD) and satellite precipitation product (TRMM) are used. Different network properties such as node degree, degree distribution, clustering coefficient, and architecture were computed on each resultant precipitation network of GRB. We also ranked influential grid points in the precipitation network by using weighted degree betweenness to identify the importance of each grid station in the network Our results reveal that the choice of correlation method does not significantly affect the network measures and reconfirm that the thresholds significantly influence network construction and network properties in the case of both datasets. The spatial distribution of the clustering coefficient value is high to low from center to boundary and inverse in the case of degree.  In addition, there is a positive correlation between the average neighbor degree and node degree. Again, we analyzed the architecture of precipitation networks and found that the network has a small world with random network behavior.   Our results also indicated that both products have similar network measures and showed similar kinds of spatial patterns.</p>

Circulation ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 132 (suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Ashikaga ◽  
Jonathan Chrispin ◽  
Degang Wu ◽  
Joshua Garland

Recent evidence suggests that pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) may perturb the electrophysiological substrate for maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF). Our previous work indicates that information theory metrics can quantify electrical communications during arrhythmia. We hypothesized that PVI ‘rewires’ the electrical communication network during AF such that the topology exhibits higher levels of small-world network properties, with higher clustering coefficient and lower path length, than would be expected by chance. Thirteen consecutive patients (n=6 with prior PVI and n=7 without) underwent AF ablation using a 64-electrode basket catheter in the left atrium. Multielectrode recording was performed during AF for 60 seconds, followed by PVI. Mutual information was calculated from the time series between each pair of electrodes using the Kraskov-Stögbauer-Grassberger estimator. The all-to-all mutual information matrix (64x64; Figure, upper panels) was thresholded by the median and standard deviations of mutual information to build a binary adjacency matrix for electrical communication networks. The properties of small-world network ( swn ; ‘small-world-ness’) were quantified by the ratio of the observed average clustering coefficient to that of a random network over the ratio of the observed average path length to that of a random network. swn was expressed in normal Z standard deviation units. As the binarizing threshold increased, the Z-score of swn decreased (Figure, lower panel). However, the Z-score at each threshold value was consistently higher with prior PVI than those without (p<0.05). In conclusion, electrical communication network during AF with prior PVI is associated with higher levels of small-world network properties than those without. This finding supports the concept that PVI perturbs the underlying substrate. In addition, swn of electrical communication network may be a promising metric to quantify substrate modification.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Daskalaki ◽  
Konstantinos Spiliotis ◽  
Constantinos Siettos ◽  
Georgios Minadakis ◽  
Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos

Abstract. The monitoring of statistical network properties could be useful for the short-term hazard assessment of the occurrence of mainshocks in the presence of foreshocks. Using successive connections between events acquired from the earthquake catalog of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) for the case of the L'Aquila (Italy) mainshock (Mw = 6.3) of 6 April 2009, we provide evidence that network measures, both global (average clustering coefficient, small-world index) and local (betweenness centrality) ones, could potentially be exploited for forecasting purposes both in time and space. Our results reveal statistically significant increases in the topological measures and a nucleation of the betweenness centrality around the location of the epicenter about 2 months before the mainshock. The results of the analysis are robust even when considering either large or off-centered the main event space windows.


2008 ◽  
Vol 09 (03) ◽  
pp. 277-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREGOIRE DANOY ◽  
ENRIQUE ALBA ◽  
PASCAL BOUVRY

Multi-hop ad hoc networks allow establishing local groups of communicating devices in a self-organizing way. However, when considering realistic mobility patterns, such networks most often get divided in a set of disjoint partitions. This presence of partitions is an obstacle to communication within these networks. Ad hoc networks are generally composed of devices capable of communicating in a geographical neighborhood for free (e.g. using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth). In most cases a communication infrastructure is available. It can be a set of access point as well as a GSM/UMTS network. The use of such an infrastructure is billed, but it permits to interconnect distant nodes, through what we call “bypass links”. The objective of our work is to optimize the placement of these long-range links. To this end we rely on small-world network properties, which consist in a high clustering coefficient and a low characteristic path length. In this article we investigate the use of three genetic algorithms (generational, steady-state, and cooperative coevolutionary) to optimize three instances of this topology control problem and present initial evidence of their capacity to solve it.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camellia Sarkar ◽  
Saumya Gupta ◽  
Rahul Kumar Verma ◽  
Himanshu Sinha ◽  
Sarika Jalan

ABSTRACTIntegrating network theory approaches over longitudinal genome-wide gene expression data is a robust approach to understand the molecular underpinnings of a dynamic biological process. Here, we performed a network-based investigation of longitudinal gene expression changes during sporulation of a yeast strain, SK1. Using global network attributes, viz. clustering coefficient, degree distribution of a node, degree-degree mixing of the connected nodes and disassortativity, we observed dynamic changes in these parameters indicating a highly connected network with inter-module crosstalk. Analysis of local attributes, such as clustering coefficient, hierarchy, betweenness centrality and Granovetter’s weak ties showed that there was an inherent hierarchy under regulatory control that was determined by specific nodes. Biological annotation of these nodes indicated the role of specifically linked pairs of genes in meiosis. These genes act as crucial regulators of sporulation in the highly sporulating SK1 strain. An independent analysis of these network properties in a less efficient sporulating strain helped to understand the heterogeneity of network profiles. We show that comparison of network properties has the potential to identify candidate nodes contributing to the phenotypic diversity of developmental processes in natural populations. Therefore, studying these network parameters as described in this work for dynamic developmental processes, such as sporulation in yeast and eventually in disease progression in humans, can help in identifying candidate factors which are potential regulators of differences between normal and perturbed processes and can be causal targets for intervention.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-584
Author(s):  
Jeff Alstott ◽  
Christine Klymko ◽  
Pamela B Pyzza ◽  
Mary Radcliffe

Abstract Many real-world networks have high clustering among vertices: vertices that share neighbours are often also directly connected to each other. A network’s clustering can be a useful indicator of its connectedness and community structure. Algorithms for generating networks with high clustering have been developed, but typically rely on adding or removing edges and nodes, sometimes from a completely empty network. Here, we introduce algorithms that create a highly clustered network by starting with an existing network and rearranging edges, without adding or removing them; these algorithms can preserve other network properties even as the clustering increases. They rely on local rewiring rules, in which a single edge changes one of its vertices in a way that is guaranteed to increase clustering. This greedy step can be applied iteratively to transform a random network into a form with much higher clustering. Additionally, the algorithms presented grow a network’s clustering faster than they increase its path length, meaning that network enters a regime of comparatively high clustering and low path length: a small world. These algorithms may be a basis for how real-world networks rearrange themselves organically to achieve or maintain high clustering and small-world structure.


2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (30) ◽  
pp. 5365-5373 ◽  
Author(s):  
RENHUAN YANG ◽  
AIGUO SONG

We study stochastic resonance (SR) in Hindmarsh–Rose (HR) neural network with small-world (SW) connections driven by external periodic stimulus, focusing on the dependence of properties of SR on the network structure parameters. It is found that, the SW neural network enhances SR compared with single neuron. By turning coupling strength c, two categories of SR were gained. With the connection-rewiring probability p increasing, the resonance curve becomes more and more sharp and the peak value increases gradually and then reaches saturation. The SW network enhances the SR peak value compared with regular network and widens resonance in ascending range compared with random network. When decreasing node degree k, the resonance range is enlarged, and the signal noise ratio (SNR) curve becomes a two peak one from a classic single peak SR curve, and then the stochastic resonance phenomenon almost disappears.


2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (07) ◽  
pp. 1149-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
YU-SONG TU ◽  
A. O. SOUSA ◽  
LING-JIANG KONG ◽  
MU-REN LIU

We analyze the evolution of Sznajd Model with synchronous updating in several complex networks. Similar to the model on square lattice, we have found a transition between the state with nonconsensus and the state with complete consensus in several complex networks. Furthermore, by adjusting the network parameters, we find that a large clustering coefficient does not favor development of a consensus. In particular, in the limit of large system size with the initial concentration p =0.5 of opinion +1, a consensus seems to be never reached for the Watts–Strogatz small-world network, when we fix the connectivity k and the rewiring probability ps; nor for the scale-free network, when we fix the minimum node degree m and the triad formation step probability pt.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Hao Liu ◽  
Haimeng Hu ◽  
Huiying Wang ◽  
Jiahui Han ◽  
Yunfei Li ◽  
...  

Most previous imaging studies have used traditional Pearson correlation analysis to construct brain networks. This approach fails to adequately and completely account for the interaction between adjacent brain regions. In this study, we used the L1-norm linear regression model to test the small-world attributes of the brain networks of three groups of patients, namely, those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and healthy controls (HCs); we attempted to identify the method that may detect minor differences in MCI and AD patients. Twenty-four AD patients, 33 MCI patients, and 27 HC elderly subjects were subjected to functional MRI (fMRI). We applied traditional Pearson correlation and the L1-norm to construct the brain networks and then tested the small-world attributes by calculating the following parameters: clustering coefficient (Cp), path length (Lp), global efficiency (Eg), and local efficiency (Eloc). As expected, L1 could detect slight changes, mainly in MCI patients expressing higher Cp and Eloc; however, no statistical differences were found between MCI patients and HCs in terms of Cp, Lp, Eg, and Eloc, using Pearson correlation. Compared with HCs, AD patients expressed a lower Cp, Eloc, and Lp and an increased Eg using both connectivity metrics. The statistical differences between the groups indicated the brain networks constructed by the L1-norm were more sensitive to detect slight small-world network changes in early stages of AD.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (04) ◽  
pp. 2150023
Author(s):  
Vinícius H. Resende ◽  
Murillo G. Carneiro

Most multi-label learning (MLL) techniques perform classification by analyzing only the physical features of the data, which means they are unable to consider high-level features, such as structural and topological ones. Consequently, they have trouble to detect the semantic meaning of the data (e.g., formation pattern). To handle this problem, a high-level framework has been recently proposed to the MLL task, in which the high-level features are extracted using the analysis of complex network measures. In this paper, we extend that work by evaluating different combinations of four complex networks measures, namely clustering coefficient, assortativity, average degree and average path length. Experiments conducted over seven real-world data sets showed that the low-level techniques often can have their predictive performance improved after being combined with high-level ones, and also demonstrated that there is no a unique measure that provides the best results, i.e., different problems may ask for different network properties in order to have their high-level patterns efficiently detected.


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