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Bursty dynamics is a common temporal property of various complex systems in Nature but it also characterises the dynamics of human actions and interactions. At the phenomenological level it is a feature of all systems that evolve…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-08 Márton Karsai , Hang-Hyun Jo , Kimmo Kaski

The study of connectivity and coordination has drawn increasing attention in recent decades due to their central role in driving markets, shaping societal dynamics, and influencing biological systems. Traditionally, observable connections,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shahar Somin , Tom Cohen , Jeremy Kepner , Alex Pentland

The formation of network structure is mainly influenced by an individual node's activity and its memory, where activity can usually be interpreted as the individual inherent property and memory can be represented by the interaction strength…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-15 Hyewon Kim , Meesoon Ha , Hawoong Jeong

Understanding how opinions spread through a community or how consensus emerges in noisy environments can have a significant impact on our comprehension of social relations among individuals. In this work a model for the dynamics of opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Schwammle , M. C. Gonzalez , A. A. Moreira , J. S. Jr. Andrade , H. J. Herrmann

This work is aimed at studying realistic social control strategies for social networks based on the introduction of random information into the state of selected driver agents. Deliberately exposing selected agents to random information is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Marco Cremonini , Francesca Casamassima

The rapid diffusion of information and the adoption of social behaviors are of critical importance in situations as diverse as collective actions, pandemic prevention, or advertising and marketing. Although the dynamics of large cascades…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-30 Hao Peng , Azadeh Nematzadeh , Daniel M. Romero , Emilio Ferrara

There is currently growing interest in modeling the information diffusion on social networks across multi-disciplines. The majority of the corresponding research has focused on information diffusion independently, ignoring the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-28 Chuang Liu , Nan Zhou , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Gui-Quan Sun , Zi-Ke Zhang

Cultures of neurons grown on multi-electrode arrays have become a common experimental preparation for investigating developing neural networks. Experiment and simulation have shown that these developing networks eventually exhibit bursting…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Michael Stiber , Natalie Gonzales , Jewel YunHsuan Lee

Time-varying connections are crucial in understanding the structures and dynamics of complex networks. In this paper, we propose a continuous-time switching topology model for temporal networks that is driven by bursty behavior and study…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-21 Ziyan Zeng , Minyu Feng , Matjaž Perc , Jürgen Kurths

The dynamics of neural networks is often characterized by collective behavior and quasi-synchronous events, where a large fraction of neurons fire in short time intervals, separated by uncorrelated firing activity. These global temporal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-03 Raffaella Burioni , Mario Casartelli , Matteo di Volo , Roberto Livi , Alessandro Vezzani

Online social networks play a major role in the spread of information at very large scale and it becomes essential to provide means to analyse this phenomenon. In this paper we address the issue of predicting the temporal dynamics of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Adrien Guille , Hakim Hacid , Cécile Favre

The increasing availability of large-scale data on human behavior has catalyzed simultaneous advances in network theory, capturing the scaling properties of the interactions between a large number of individuals, and human dynamics,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-10 Chaoming Song , Dashun Wang , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Widespread interest in the diffusion of information through social networks has produced a large number of Social Dynamics models. A majority of them use theoretical hypothesis to explain their diffusion mechanisms while the few empirically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-05-18 José Luis Iribarren , Esteban Moro

Spontaneous brain activity in the absence of external stimuli is not random but contains complex dynamical structures such as neuronal avalanches with power-law duration and size distributions. These experimental observations have been…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Lik-Chun Chan , Tsz-Fung Kok , Emily S. C. Ching

Spreading information through a network of devices is a core activity for most distributed systems. As such, self-stabilizing algorithms implementing information spreading are one of the key building blocks enabling aggregate computing to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yuanqiu Mo , Soura Dasgupta , Jacob Beal

Social network analysis is now widely used to investigate the dynamics of infectious disease spread from person to person. Vaccination dramatically disrupts the disease transmission process on a contact network, and indeed, sufficiently…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-05 Ellsworth Campbell , Marcel Salathé

Although recent studies show that both topological structures and human dynamics can strongly affect information spreading on social networks, the complicated interplay of the two significant factors has not yet been clearly described. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Xiao-Ke Xu , Jian-Bo Wang , Ye Wu , Michael Small

The collective dynamics of a network of coupled excitable systems in response to an external stimulus depends on the topology of the connections in the network. Here we develop a general theoretical approach to study the effects of network…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-10-22 Daniel B. Larremore , Woodrow L. Shew , Juan G. Restrepo

In multi-class communication networks, traffic surges due to one class of users can significantly degrade the performance for other classes. During these transient periods, it is thus of crucial importance to implement priority mechanisms…

Performance · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Mathieu Feuillet , Matthieu Jonckheere , Balakrishna J. Prabhu

Temporal social networks are characterized by {heterogeneous} duration of contacts, which can either follow a power-law distribution, such as in face-to-face interactions, or a Weibull distribution, such as in mobile-phone communication.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-23 Kun Zhao , Márton Karsai , Ginestra Bianconi