Time evolution of complex networks: commuting systems in insular Italy

The aim of this paper is to study the dynamics of commuting system of two insular regions of Italy, Sardinia and Sicily, inspected as complex networks. The authors refer to a thirty-year time period and take into account three census dataset about the work and study-driven intermunicipal origin-destination movements of residential inhabitants in 1981, 1991, and 2001. Since it is likely that the number of municipalities (in this case, the vertices of the system) do not display sharp variations, the authors direct the study to the variation of the properties emerging through both a topological and a weighted network representation of commuting in the time periods indicated.