METHOD FOR ANALYZING THE FINE STRUCTURE OF NETWORKS

摘要

The invention disclosed herein relates to methods for analyzing the fine structure of networks comprising plurality of elements of identical nature and directed or undirected links between said elements having commensurable strengths. The invention further concerns methods for high resolution modularization of networks as well as methods for identifying distinguished links or elements or groups of links or elements supposedly playing special roles in said networks (such as links or elements situated in module overlaps and VIP-links or VTP-elements situated in the overlaps of a plurality of modules). The network analysis methods of the invention are based on rendering a novel index to all elements and/or links of the network called 'community landscape height value' quantitatively characterizing the centrality of each element and/or link from the viewpoint of the network as a whole and using said novel index for exploring the so far hidden fine structure of the network. The invention also concerns pre-programmed non-programmable processing devices capable of carrying out the methods of the invention as well as computer readable data carriers comprising computer readable algorithms suitable for carrying out such methods.