The core–periphery paradigm describes a ubiquitous mesoscale organisation in which a densely interlinked core coexists with a sparsely connected periphery. Cores serve as conduits for intense ...

This paper proposes a framework to identify the structure of a financial network and its evolution over time, and presents an application to an interbank market with complete actual data. The ...

The traditional distinction between the core and the periphery is becoming increasingly less relevant, as the mature industrial economies and the emerging-market economies become more integrated and ...

Software systems are among the most complex of the artifacts that our species creates. In the design, use, and evolution of such systems, a dynamic tension exists between what I have come to call the ...