Typically, complex systems are natural or social systems which consist of a large number of
nonlinearly interacting elements. These systems are open, they interchange information or …

The success of new scientific areas can be assessed by their potential in contributing to new
theoretical approaches and in applications to real-world problems. Complex networks have …

This paper uses social network analysis to examine the interaction between corporate blogs
devoted to sustainability issues and the blogosphere, a clustered online network of …

Rumor is an important form of social interaction, and its spreading has a significant impact
on people's lives. In the age of Web, people are using electronic media more frequently than …

A new type of communities is gaining momentum on the web and is reshaping online
communication and collaboration patterns and the way how information is consumed and …

The number of scholarly blogs on the Web is increasing. In this article, a group of
researchers are asked to describe the functions that their blogs serve for them as …

The influence of microblog on information transmission is becoming more and more
obvious. By characterizing the behavior of following and being followed as out-degree and …

We find numerical and empirical evidence for dynamical, structural and topological phase
transitions on the (German) Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE) in the temporal vicinity of the …

The model of opinion formation in human population based on social impact theory is
investigated numerically. On the basis of a database received from the on-line game server …

Interactions between users in cyberspace may lead to phenomena different from those
observed in common social networks. Here we analyse large data sets about users and …