Quantifying Loopy Network Architectures

@article{Katifori2011QuantifyingLN,
  title={Quantifying Loopy Network Architectures},
  author={Eleni Katifori and Marcelo O. Magnasco},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  year={2011},
  volume={7}
}
Biology presents many examples of planar distribution and structural networks having dense sets of closed loops. An archetype of this form of network organization is the vasculature of dicotyledonous leaves, which showcases a hierarchically-nested architecture containing closed loops at many different levels. Although a number of approaches have been proposed to measure aspects of the structure of such networks, a robust metric to quantify their hierarchical organization is still lacking. We… 
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