About Network Structures and Systems Complexity

Abstract

This paper provides the analysis for structural and functional approaches of complex network systems research. In order to study the behavior of these systems the flow adjacency matrices were introduced, and local and global dynamic characteristics of system elements were defined. The notion of the flow core of network system was introduced and its advantages over the k-core of complex network were analyzed. The methods were proposed for identifying real structure of network system and reducing the dimensionality of its model.