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Boolean Network Topologies And The Determinative Power Of Nodes, Bronson W. Wacker, Mihaela T. Velcsov, Jim A. Rogers

Mathematics Faculty Publications

Boolean networks have been used extensively for modeling networks whose node activity could be simplified to a binary outcome, such as on-off. Each node is influenced by the states of the other nodes via a logical Boolean function. The network is described by its topological properties which refer to the links between nodes, and its dynamical properties which refer to the way each node uses the information obtained from other nodes to update its state. This work explores the correlation between the information stored in the Boolean functions for each node in a property known as the determinative power and …