Objective The lack of predictive power over complex systems,either designed by humans or evolved by nature, is afoundational problem in contemporary science. The Internetoffers a paradigmatic example: nothing in its architecture anddesign explains its complex large-scale structure, unexpectedlydiscovered decades after its inception. We face an unsettlingtruth: the Internet has acquired emergent properties that arebeyond our full understanding, much less control.As scientists, we are compelled to explore how the peculiarstructure relates to the function(s) of complex networks.Many complex networks in nature share the peculiar structuralcharacter of the Internet, but they also manifest phenomenalbehavior: they efficiently route information without any routingcommunication protocol, i.e. without any knowledge of the globalnetwork topology. This achievement is currently beyond the reachof man-made networks; the Internet still uses a 30-year old routingarchitecture with fundamentally unscalable overhead requirements.The only known mechanism for efficient routing without globaltopology knowledge is greedy routing in a network embeddedin a metric space. We propose to explore the hypothesis that beneath theobservable topologies of complex networks reside hidden hyperbolic metric spaces,which could be used to facilitate maximally efficient routing withscalability characteristics either equal, or close to, theoretically best possible. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicstopologyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networks Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG - Marie Curie Action: "Reintegration Grants" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-IRG - International Re-integration Grants (IRG) Coordinator TECHNOLOGIKO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU EU contribution € 100 000,00 Address ARCHBISHOP KYPRIANOS 31 SAVINGS COOPERATIVE BANK BUILDING 3RD FLOOR 3036 Lemesos Cyprus See on map Region Κύπρος Κύπρος Κύπρος Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Charalambos Chrisostomou (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS Participation ended Cyprus EU contribution No data Address AVENUE PANEPISTIMIOU 2109 AGLANTZI 1678 Nicosia See on map Region Κύπρος Κύπρος Κύπρος Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Christoforos Hadjicostis (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
