Heat Flow-Thermodynamic Depth Complexity in Networks

  • Authors:
  • Francisco Escolano;Miguel A. Lozano;Edwin R. Hancock

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '10 Proceedings of the 2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we establish a formal link between network complexity in terms of Birkhoff-von Newmann decompositions and heat flow complexity (in terms of quantifying the heat flowing through the network at a given inverse temperature). Furthermore, we also define heat flow complexity in terms of thermodynamic depth, which results in a novel approach for characterizing networks and quantify their complexity. In our experiments we characterize several protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks and then highlight their evolutive differences.