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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 19: Networks, From Topology to Dynamics II (joint with DY and BP)

SOE 19.3: Talk

Thursday, April 3, 2014, 12:45–13:00, GÖR 226

Analysis of local network structure by node-specific triadic Z-score profiles — •Marco Winkler and Jörg Reichardt — Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Würzburg, Germany

Over the last decade so called network motifs have attracted high attention. A motif is a subgraph pattern that appears significantly more often than in a random network with the same degree distribution as the original one. Triadic Z-score profiles, Z^→, assign every possible triadic subgraph pattern i a score Z_i, corresponding to the magnitude of over-/underrepresentation of the pattern compared to the random null model. These Z-score profiles are a common tool to analyze complex networks.

However, triad patterns are not necessarily homogeneously distributed over the network. Therefore, we introduce the concept of node-specific Z-scores. For the node-specific Z-score profile, Z^→α, of a node α, only the triads it participates in are taken into account. The node-specific Z-score profiles can then be used for classification of a network’s vertices into different structural groups. We present results for various real-world data sets including neural networks and transcription networks.