The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram, in association with prominent research institutions, have answered a question that has perplexed scientists for half a century – what makes large and complex networks stable?
The study was undertaken in collaboration with the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad, CNR – Institute of Complex Systems (ICS), Italy; and Bar-llan University, Israel. The research involving a mathematical framework is believed to have real-world implications in heterogenous networks – social, power, data and even genetic; infrastructure, the Internet and health-care ecosystems.
The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Physics in a paper co-authored by Chandrakala Meena, assistant professor, School of Physics, IISER Thiruvananthapuram; Chittaranjan Hens, assistant professor, IIIT Hyderabad; Stefano Boccaletti of CNR – ICS; and the trio of Baruch Barzel, Simcha Haber and Suman Acharyya of Bar-llan University.
