From brain to earth and climate systems: Small-world interaction networks or not?
From brain to earth and climate systems: Small-world interaction networks or not?
We consider recent reports on small-world topologies of interaction networks derived from the dynamics of spatially extended systems that are investigated in diverse scientific fields such as neurosciences, geophysics, or meteorology. With numerical simulations that mimic typical experimental situations, we have identified an important constraint when characterizing such networks: indications …