New high-precision method for analysing the functioning of power distribution networks
Catalan scientists develop new high-precision method for analysing and comparing functioning and structure of complex networks that will make it possible to understand and more effectively study certain dysfunctions of the brain system and the functioning of systems such as the internet, power distribution networks and airport connections.
Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the University of Barcelona (UB) have headed a research project leading to the publication of a paper in Nature Communications. In the article, they present a scientific method for identifying, comparing and precisely determining objective differences between large nodes of complex networks.
The new method will make it possible, for example, to compare and differentiate the functioning of brain networks in drug addicts and healthy individuals, thus advancing the study of the symptoms and effects of addiction on the brain. The method can also be used to more effectively analyse the functioning of critical complex systems, such as power distribution networks, airport connections and even social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Other participants in the research project, the results of which were recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, were Tiago A. Sheiber and Martin G. Raveti of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) and Panos M. Pardalos of the University of Florida (United States).
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