Adaptive coevolutionary networks: a review.
Adaptive networks appear in many biological applications. They combine topological evolution of the network with dynamics in the network nodes. Recently, the dynamics of adaptive networks has been investigated in a number of parallel studies from different fields, ranging from genomics to game theory. Here we review these recent developments and show that they can be viewed from a unique angle. We demonstrate that all these studies are characterized by common themes, most prominently: complex dynamics and robust topological self-organization based on simple local rules.
Gross
Thilo
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Biological Physics Section, Max-Planck Intitut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany. thilo.gross@physics.org
Blasius
Bernd
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D000465:Algorithms; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005716:Game Theory; D007257:Information Theory; D008962:Models, Theoretical