Signal propagation in complex networks drives epidemics, is responsible for information
going viral, promotes trust and facilitates moral behavior in social groups, enables the …

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness
of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a variety of complex systems …

With the boom in technologies and mobile networks in recent years, online social networks
have become an integral part of our daily lives. These virtual networks connect people …

Real networks exhibit heterogeneous nature with nodes playing far different roles in
structure and function. To identify vital nodes is thus very significant, allowing us to control …

Random walks are ubiquitous in the sciences, and they are interesting from both theoretical
and practical perspectives. They are one of the most fundamental types of stochastic …

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

The global spread of epidemics, rumors, opinions, and innovations are complex, network-
driven dynamic processes. The combined multiscale nature and intrinsic heterogeneity of …

We discuss models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease
spreading to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence strategies, are often not …

Ties often have a strength naturally associated with them that differentiate them from each
other. Tie strength has been operationalized as weights. A few network measures have …

Mobile geolocation data is a valuable asset in the assessment of movement patterns of a
population. Once a highly contagious disease takes place in a location the movement …