Generation of degree-correlated networks using copulas

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Authors: Mathias Raschke, Markus Schläpfer, Konstantinos Trantopoulos 

Publication date: 1 December 2010

Abstract: Dynamical processes on complex networks such as information propagation, innovation diffusion, cascading failures or epidemic spreading are highly affected by their underlying topologies as characterized by, for instance, degree-degree correlations. Here, we introduce the concept of copulas in order to artificially generate random networks with an arbitrary degree distribution and a rich a priori degree-degree correlation (or `association') structure. The accuracy of the proposed formalism and corresponding algorithm is numerically confirmed. The derived network ensembles can be systematically deployed as proper null models, in order to unfold the complex interplay between the topology of real networks and the dynamics on top of them.

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