Network model selection: A review of methods

Zoran Levnajić is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. His academic background spans several scientific fields: he obtained his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Trieste in Italy, an MSc in dynamical systems from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the USA, and a PhD in complex networks from the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia. He is the Director of the Complex Systems and Data Science Lab, where his research focuses on diverse aspects of network science, with applications ranging from physics and neuroscience to the social sciences. In addition, he has advised numerous doctoral and MSc students and served as Head of the faculty’s doctoral school.

• Introduction.- Overview of the central problems in network science.- From data to networks.- Network completion.- Network archaeology.- Network simplification.- Network comparison.- Quantification of network randomness.- Hypergraphs.- Conclusions and outlook.