Three Treelike Networks: Networks of Metropolitan Water Distribution, Twitter Communication and Sexu (IMAGE)
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A new mathematical model of the structure of networks could help find new cancer drugs, speed up traffic flow and combat sexually transmitted disease. Although the three challenges seem diverse, they all could benefit from a theory that helps uncover information about a network by analyzing its structure. Successful link prediction algorithms already exist for certain types of networks, but the researchers analyzed differently structured networks to come up with their alternative algorithm. This image shows three treelike networks: networks of (left to right) metropolitan water distribution, Twitter communication and sexual contacts.
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Keke Shang
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