Some traits of complex adaptive systems 10-18-2014d1431

2015-01-13

Some traits of complex adaptive systems 10-18-2014d1431

scale-free
small world
sparse

Information about sparseness of networks

wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulatory_network): Recent work has also shown that natural selection tends to favor networks with sparse connectivity.33
-Survival of the sparsest: robust gene networks are parsimonious
--q

"We show that when the costs of complexity are taken into account, that robustness implies a parsimonious network structure that is sparsely connected and not unnecessarily complex; and that selection will favor sparse networks when network topology is free to evolve."

q: Using an evolutionary algorithm involving minimization of link density and average distance, four major types of networks are encountered: (a) sparse exponential-like networks, (b) sparse scale-free networks, (c) star networks and (d) highly dense networks
-Optimization in Complex Networks
--http://complex.upf.es/~ricard/optimization_Sitges.pdf