English
Related papers

Related papers: Complexities of social networks: A Physicist's per…

200 papers

Multilayer network science has emerged as a central framework for analysing interconnected and interdependent complex systems. Its relevance has grown substantially with the increasing availability of rich, heterogeneous data, which makes…

This paper presents a methodological approach based on the use of complex networks to analyze the structure and content of curricula. We analyze the concept network built from the final year of a particular high school Physics curriculum,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-25 Paula Tuzón , Antoni Salvà Salvà , Juan Fernández-Gracia

Networks represent relationships between entities in many complex systems, spanning from online social interactions to biological cell development and brain connectivity. In many cases, relationships between entities are unambiguously…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Ivan Brugere , Brian Gallagher , Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

Understanding the origins of complexity is a fundamental challenge with implications for biological and technological systems. Network theory emerges as a powerful tool to model complex systems. Networks are an intuitive framework to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-22 Blai Vidiella , Salva Duran-Nebreda , Sergi Valverde

I briefly survey several fascinating topics in networks and nonlinearity. I highlight a few methods and ideas, including several of personal interest, that I anticipate to be especially important during the next several years. These topics…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Mason A. Porter

Future Information Retrieval, especially in connection with the internet, will incorporate the content descriptions that are generated with social network extraction technologies and preferably incorporate the probability theory for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Mahyuddin K. M. Nasution , Shahrul Azman Noah

Complex systems are characterized by specific time-dependent interactions among their many constituents. As a consequence they often manifest rich, non-trivial and unexpected behavior. Examples arise both in the physical and non-physical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-21 Yurij Holovatch , Ralph Kenna , Stefan Thurner

Statistical physics has proven to be a very fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the realm of traditional physics. The last years have witnessed the attempt by physicists to study collective phenomena emerging from the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-05-11 Claudio Castellano , Santo Fortunato , Vittorio Loreto

The collaboration network is an example of a social network which has both non-trivial temporal and spatial dependence. Based on the observations of collaborations in Physical Review Letters, a model of collaboration network is proposed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Anjan Kumar Chandra , Kamalika Basu Hajra , Pratap Kumar Das , Parongama Sen

We analyse the large-scale structure of the journal citation network built from information contained in the Thomson-Reuters Journal Citation Reports. To this end, we take advantage of the network science paraphernalia and explore network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-10-19 Massimo Franceschet

I present my viewpoint on complexity, stressing general arguments and using a rather simple language.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giorgio Parisi

Consider a large social network with possibly severe degree heterogeneity and mixed-memberships. We are interested in testing whether the network has only one community or there are more than one communities. The problem is known to be…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-24 Jiashun Jin , Zheng Tracy Ke , Shengming Luo

The degree distribution, referred to as the delta-sequence of a network is studied. Using the non-normalized Lorenz curve, we apply a generalized form of the classical majorization partial order. Next, we introduce a new class of small…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Leo Egghe

This paper presents the foundational ideas for a new way of modeling social aggregation. Traditional approaches have been using network theory, and the theory of random networks. Under that paradigm, every social agent is represented by a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mirco A. Mannucci , Lisa Sparks , Daniele C. Struppa

Creating new ties in a social network facilitates knowledge exchange and affects positional advantage. In this paper, we study the process, which we call network building, of establishing ties between two existing social networks in order…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Anastasia Moskvina , Jiamou Liu

Complex networks representing social interactions, brain activities, molecular structures have been studied widely to be able to understand and predict their characteristics as graphs. Models and algorithms for these networks are used in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Murat Çelik , Ali Baran Taşdemir , Lale Özkahya

Pinning control on complex dynamical networks has emerged as a very important topic in recent trends of control theory due to the extensive study of collective coupled behaviors and their role in physics, engineering and biology. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Stephane Chretien , Sebastien Darses

We study a social network consisting of over $10^4$ individuals, with a degree distribution exhibiting two power scaling regimes separated by a critical degree $k_{\rm crit}$, and a power law relation between degree and local clustering. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabor Csanyi , Balazs Szendroi

Common experience suggests that many networks might possess community structure - division of vertices into groups, with a higher density of edges within groups than between them. Here we describe a new computer algorithm that detects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. E. J. Newman , M. Girvan

Complex networks are a powerful modeling tool, allowing the study of countless real-world systems. They have been used in very different domains such as computer science, biology, sociology, management, etc. Authors have been trying to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Burcu Kantarcı , Vincent Labatut