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Network Formation and Dynamics under Economic Constraints

dc.contributor.advisorTimme, Marc Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.authorSchröder, Malte
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-26T08:53:08Z
dc.date.available2018-03-26T08:53:08Z
dc.date.issued2018-03-26
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-002E-E3A1-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-6792
dc.language.isoengde
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc571.4de
dc.titleNetwork Formation and Dynamics under Economic Constraintsde
dc.typecumulativeThesisde
dc.contributor.refereeTimme, Marc Prof. Dr.
dc.date.examination2018-02-27
dc.description.abstractengNetworks describe a broad range of systems across a wide variety of topics from social and economic interactions over technical infrastructures such as power grids and the internet to biological contexts such as food webs or neural networks. A number of large scale failures and events in these interconnected systems in recent years has shown that understanding the behavior of individual units of these networks is not necessarily sufficient to handle the increasing complexity of these systems. Many theoretical models have been studied to understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying the formation and function of networked systems and a general framework was developed to describe and understand networked systems. However, most of these models ignore a constraint that affects almost all realistic systems: limited resources. In this thesis I study the effects of economic constraints, such as a limited budget or cost minimization, both on the control of network formation and dynamics as well as on network formation itself. I introduce and analyze a new coupling scheme for coupled dynamical systems, showing that synchronization of chaotic units can be enhanced by restricting the interactions based on the states of the individual units, thus saving interactions costs. This new interaction scheme guarantees synchronizability of arbitrary networks of coupled chaotic oscillators, independent of the network topology even with strongly limited interactions. I then propose a new order parameter to measure the degree of phase coherence of networks of coupled phase oscillators. This new order parameter accurately describes the phase coherence in all stages of incoherent movement, partial and full phase locking up to full synchrony. Importantly, I analytically relate this order parameter directly to the stability of the phase locked state. In the second part, I consider the formation of networks under economic constraints from two different points of view. First I study the effects of explicitly limited resources on the control of random percolation, showing that optimal control can have undesired side effects. Specifically, maximal delay of percolation with a limited budget results in a discontinuous percolation transition, making the transition itself uncontrollable in the sense that a single link can have a macroscopic effect on the connectivity. Finally, I propose a model where network formation is driven by cost minimization of the individual nodes in the network. Based on a simple economically motivated supply problem, the resulting network structure is given as the solution of a large number of individual but interaction optimization problem. I show that these network states directly correspond to the final states of a local percolation algorithm and analyze the effects of local optimization on the network formation process. Overall, I reveal mechanisms and phenomena introduced by these economic constraints that are typically not considered in the standard models, showing that economic constraints can strongly alter the formation and function of networked systems. Thereby, I extend the theoretical understanding that we have of networked systems to economic considerations. I hope that this thesis enables better prediction and control networked systems in realistic settings.de
dc.contributor.coRefereeKree, Reiner Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.thirdRefereeEstrada, Ernesto Prof.
dc.subject.engNetwork dynamicsde
dc.subject.engNetworksde
dc.subject.engPercolationde
dc.subject.engNonlinear dynamicsde
dc.subject.engNetwork formationde
dc.subject.engOptimizationde
dc.subject.engSynchronizationde
dc.subject.engEconomic constraintsde
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:gbv:7-11858/00-1735-0000-002E-E3A1-0-9
dc.affiliation.instituteGöttinger Graduiertenschule für Neurowissenschaften, Biophysik und molekulare Biowissenschaften (GGNB)de
dc.subject.gokfullBiologie (PPN619462639)de
dc.identifier.ppn1016509227


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