Robustness Analysis of the Regional and Interregional Components of the Weighted World Air Transportation Network

Figure 1

This figure illustrates the process of uncovering the component structure using a community detection algorithm to extract the dense parts forming the local components. After revealing the local components, one builds the global components with the nodes and links shared by the local components. In this example, the network has three communities colored green, light blue, and dark blue. Therefore, it has three local components. The links and nodes joining these local components form three global components.