Luis M. Rocha

So happy to finally see this collaboration with Rion Correia and @alainbarrat out. The distance backbone is a unique, algebraically-principled network subgraph that preserves all shortest paths. We were were excited to find out (with #sociopatterns and other data) that the backbones of #socialnetworks contain large amounts of redundant interactions that can be removed with very little impact on #communitystructure and #epidemic spread.

#complexsystems #dynamics
#Networkscience #Sparsification #complexnetworks
#PLOSCompBio:

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Contact networks have small metric backbones that maintain community structure and are primary transmission subgraphs

Author summary It is through social networks that contagious…

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