The Matthew effect describes the phenomenon that in societies, the rich tend to get richer
and the potent even more powerful. It is closely related to the concept of preferential …

Coupled biological and chemical systems, neural networks, social interacting species, the
Internet and the World Wide Web, are only a few examples of systems composed by a large …

The moment when the hyperconnectedness of our world became most evident to me was on
October 20th, 2011, when images of the death of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former …

The increasing global demand for farmland products is placing unprecedented pressure on
the global agricultural system and its water resources. Many regions of the world, that are …

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Inspired by empirical studies of networked systems such as the Internet, social networks,
and biological networks, researchers have in recent years developed a variety of techniques …

Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize
inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy …

In this paper, we study the linking patterns and discussion topics of political bloggers. Our
aim is to measure the degree of interaction between liberal and conservative blogs, and to …

Liu has written a comprehensive text on Web mining, which consists of two parts. The first
part covers the data mining and machine learning foundations, where all the essential …

From the Internet to networks of friendship, disease transmission, and even terrorism, the
concept--and the reality--of networks has come to pervade modern society. But what exactly …