Announcement: Focus Issue on “Mesoscales in Complex Networks”

Abstract

Chaos announces a Focus Issue on Mesoscales in Complex Networks. The complex networks discipline includes a well established theory and an increasing set of analysis tools through which the interactions among the elements of a graph can be represented and studied. This Focus Issue aims to provide the Nonlinear Science community in general, and the Complex Systems community in particular, with the state of the art on the study of complex networks at the mesoscales level. Until recently the bulk of the published work has been restrained to either the local scale structure through statistical distributions or the macroscopical properties with global parameters of the network, but any of these two levels of description can apprehend the relevance of the intermediate modular scale. Nowadays, this mesoscale level has become an important topic of research, where many open questions still need to be answered. Specifically, this Focus Issue will consider the following aspects that should be addressed in order to provide a full vision of the subject: