Modularity and dynamical processes in a complex software network

LUIS G. MOYANO; MARY LUZ MOURONTE; M. L. VARGAS

Almería

Conferencia; CMMSE 2010 - International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering; 2010

Universidad de Almería

Complex networks have gathered enormous interest in the last two decades as researchers realise the major role they take in a multitude of areas. Complex technological networks represent a growing challenge to support and mantain, as their number of elements become higher and their interdependencies more involved. On the other hand, for networks that grow in a descentralized manner, it is possible to observe certain patterns in their overall structure that may be taken into account for a more tractable analysis. An example of such a pattern is the spontaneous formation of communities or modules. An important question regarding the detection of communities is if these are really representative of any internal network feature. In this work, we explore the community structure of a real telecommunication software complex network, and correlate the modularity information with the internal dynamical processes that the network is designed to support. Our results show that the correlation between community structure and internal dynamical processes is remarkable, supporting the fact that a community division of this complex network is helpful in the assessment of the underlying dynamical structure, and thus is a useful tool to achieve a simpler representation of the complexity of the network.