Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

In recent years the research community has accumulated overwhelming evidence for the
emergence of complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns in a wide range of …

Studies of human mobility in the past decade revealed a number of general scaling laws.
However, to reproduce the scaling behaviors quantitatively at both the individual and …

A network is a collection of nodes and edges, where an edge connects two nodes. Many
social, natural and engineered systems can be represented as networks. Examples include …

Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

The problem of reconstructing nonlinear and complex dynamical systems from measured
data or time series is central to many scientific disciplines including physical, biological …

In recent years the increasing availability of computer power and informatics tools has
enabled the gathering of reliable data quantifying the complexity of socio-technical systems …

Random walks on networks is the standard tool for modelling spreading processes in social
and biological systems. This first-order Markov approach is used in conventional community …

人类行为的定量化分析, 特别是时空统计规律的挖掘和建模, 是当前统计物理与复杂性科学研究
的热点. 对人类行为的深入理解, 有助于解释若干复杂的社会经济现象, 并在舆情监控, 疾病防治 …

Landscapes and the ecological processes they support are inherently complex systems, in
that they have large numbers of heterogeneous components that interact in multiple ways …