TY - JOUR A1 - Perotti, Juan I. A1 - Billoni, Orlando V. A1 - Tamarit, Francisco A. A1 - Chialvo, Dante A1 - Cannas, Sergio A. N2 - Although most networks in nature exhibit complex topologies, the origins of such complexity remain unclear. We propose a general evolutionary mechanism based on global stability. This mechanism is incorporated into a model of a growing network of interacting agents in which each new agent?s membership in the network is determined by the agent?s effect on the network?s global stability. It is shown that out of this stability constraint complex topological properties emerge in a self-organized manner, offering an explanation for their observed ubiquity in biological networks. VL - 103 N1 - © 2009 American Physical Society TI - Emergent self-organized complex network topology out of stability constraints Y1 - 2009/08// SN - 0031-9007 AV - public UR - http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.108701 PB - American Physical Society KW - PACS numbers: 89.75.Hc KW - 89.75.Da KW - 89.75.Fb ID - eprints2397 JF - Physical Review Letters ER -