TOPDRIM member Peter Sloot just published a paper on the influence of noise on information transmission in the form of packages shipped between nodes of hierarchical networks. The work, done with colleagues Agnieszka Czaplicka and Janusz A. Holyst, was published in Scientific Reports February, 6th 2013.

This work shows, that contrary to a naive understanding of the effect of noise on information transmission, generic packet-delivery undertaken by a local navigation rule in a complex network can benefit from the presence of topological noise.

Prof. Peter Sloot is a full professor of Computational Science and Complex Systems at the University of Amsterdam. He studies ‘natural information processing’ in complex systems by computational modeling and simulation as well as through formal methods.