Dynamics in Complex Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Complex networks have attracted a lot of attention among researchers. Many of them exhibit an array of structures at different scales. In this Special Issue, dynamics taking place in complex networks, such as cooperation and percolation, will be widely discussed. In particular, one emphasis is on how observations of such dynamics may be used to infer multilayer networks and higher-order network structure.

Multilayer Networks and Higher-Order Networks: The network is a convenient mathematical model to represent the structure of a complex system. Multilayer network science has proved to be an effective modeling and analysis framework applicable to a wide research area manifesting from biopolymer networks to social networks. Higher-order networks describe the multibody interactions of various complex systems ranging from the brain to the collaborative network, which have become the preferred representation for capturing the underlying network topology and geometry of complex systems. 

Evolution of Collective Behaviors and Percolation on Complex Networks: Individuals can interact in evolutionary games and percolation on social networks. Such interactions may provide insights into the evolution of network structures and dynamics on networks. The development and challenges of those dynamics researches in multilayer and higher-order networks have attracted extensive attention. 

Experimental Advances on Social Dilemma Games: Various situations in human social life can be considered social dilemmas, such as those in healthcare and business management. Researchers in this field tend to focus on two aspects in social dilemma games: the root of cooperation mechanisms in laboratory scenarios and the design of cooperation mechanisms in field experiments. Other recent experimental advances on social dilemma games are also welcome in this Special Issue.

Dr. Luoluo Jiang
Prof. Dr. Zhi-Qiang Jiang
Prof. Dr. Xiaojie Chen
Dr. Zhi Chen
Guest Editors

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• complex networks
• dynamics
• multilayer networks and higher-order networks
• evolution of collective behaviors and percolation on complex networks
• mathematical model
• evolutionary games
• network structures
• dynamics on networks