%0 Conference Paper %A De Montis, Andrea %A Chessa, Alessandro %A Campagna, Michele %A Caschili, Simone %A Deplano, Giancarlo %B 47th Congress of European Regional Science Association (ERSA) %C Paris, France %D 2007 %F eprints:1880 %K Complex networks, Commuters dynamics, Weighted networks, Spatial networks, GIS %P 1-20 %T Grouping complex systems: a weighted network comparative analysis %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1880/ %X In this study, the authors compare two inter-municipal commuting networks (MCN) pertaining to the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily, by approaching their characterization through a weighted network analysis. They develop on the results obtained for the MCN of Sardinia (De Montis et al. 2007) and attempt to use network analysis as a mean of detection of similarities or dissimilarities between the systems at hand.