Characterizing and Extracting Multiplex Patterns in Complex Networks

Abstract: Complex network theory provides a means for modeling and analyzing complex systems that consist of multiple and interdependent components. Among the studies on complex networks, structural analysis is of fundamental importance as it presents a natural route to understanding the dynamics, as well as to synthesizing or optimizing the functions, of networks. A wide spectrum of structural patterns of networks has been reported in the past decade, such as communities, multipartites, biparti