61950 20190709135512.0 doi 10.1038/s41598-017-05670-w sideral 99621 ART-2017-99621 eng Alcalde Cuesta, Fernando A method for validating Rent's rule for technological and biological networks 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Rent’s rule is empirical power law introduced in an effort to describe and optimize the wiring complexity of computer logic graphs. It is known that brain and neuronal networks also obey Rent’s rule, which is consistent with the idea that wiring costs play a fundamental role in brain evolution and development. Here we propose a method to validate this power law for a certain range of network partitions. This method is based on the bifurcation phenomenon that appears when the network is subjected to random alterations preserving its degree distribution. It has been tested on a set of VLSI circuits and real networks, including biological and technological ones. We also analyzed the effect of different types of random alterations on the Rentian scaling in order to test the influence of the degree distribution. There are network architectures quite sensitive to these randomization procedures with significant increases in the values of the Rent exponents. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E15 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/MTM2016-77642-C2-2-P info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/CUD2015-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 4.122 2017 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES 12 / 64 = 0.188 2017 Q1 T1 1.533 2017 Multidisciplinary 2017 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion González Sequeiros, Pablo (orcid)0000-0002-1184-5901 Lozano Rojo, Álvaro 7, 5378 (2017), [11 pp.] Sci. rep. Scientific reports 2045-2322 3275482 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61950/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 111213 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61950/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:61950 articulos driver 2019-07-09-11:52:41 ARTICLE