https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2010-00208-1
Information explosion on complex networks and control
1
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy
Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85287, USA
2
Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, P.R. China
3
Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85287, USA
Corresponding author: a wenxuw@gmail.com
Received:
28
October
2009
Revised:
11
May
2010
Published online:
2
July
2010
When a piece of information spreads on a complex network, error or distortion can occur. For a high error probability, the phenomenon of information explosion can occur where the number of distinct pieces of information on the network increases continuously with time. We construct a physical model to address this phenomenon. The transition to information explosion as the error probability increases through a critical value is uncovered and elucidated, and a control strategy is articulated to maximize the robustness of the network against information explosion, which is validated by both numerical computations and a mean-field based analysis.
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2010
