eprintid: 2398
rev_number: 8
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creators_name: Cannas, Sergio A.
creators_name: Perotti, Juan I.
creators_name: Billoni, Orlando V.
creators_name: Tamarit, Francisco A.
creators_id: 
creators_id: juanignacio.perotti@imtlucca.it
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title: Stability as a natural selection mechanism on interacting networks
ispublished: pub
subjects: QC
subjects: QH301
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
keywords: complex networks; evolution
abstract: Biological networks of interacting agents exhibit similar topological properties for a wide range of scales, from cellular to ecological levels, suggesting the existence of a common evolutionary origin. A general evolutionary mechanism based on global stability has been proposed recently  [J I Perotti, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 108701 (2009)]. This mechanism was 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. In this work, we analyze different quantities that characterize the topology of the emerging networks, such as global connectivity, clustering and average nearest neighbors degree, showing that they reproduce scaling behaviors frequently observed in several biological systems. The influence of the stability selection  mechanism on the dynamics associated to the resulting network, as well as  the interplay  between some topological and functional features are also analyzed.
date: 2010
publication: Papers in Physics
volume: 2
pagerange: 020005
id_number: doi:10.4279/PIP.020005
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1852-4249
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.4279/PIP.020005
citation:   Cannas, Sergio A. and Perotti, Juan I. and Billoni, Orlando V. and Tamarit, Francisco A.  Stability as a natural selection mechanism on interacting networks.  Papers in Physics, 2.  020005.  ISSN 1852-4249      (2010)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2398/1/Pap.Phys_Perotti_2010.pdf