Collective user behavior in social media applications often drives several important online
and offline phenomena linked to the spread of opinions and information. Several studies …

Urban Positionality refers to how differences in position and power shape identities,
influences and access in the urban network or space of flows. Accurate determination of …

Addressing the global urgency for improved sustainable cities and communities, as per the
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, requires innovative and disruptive …

Bipartite projections have become a common way to measure spatial networks. They are
now used in many subfields of geography, and are among the most common ways to …

The inherent structure and substantial information on global terrorism network are often
understood by identifying influential nodes. Recently, novel node identification methods are …

The big break in data collection tools of large-scale networks from biological, social, and
technological domains expands the challenge of their visualization and processing …

As networks grow in size and complexity, backbones become an essential network
representation. Indeed, they provide a simplified yet informative overview of the underlying …

Road networks are by far the largest mobility infrastructure in Sub-Sahara Africa, and are
key to providing access to economic and social opportunities. Yet the majority of road …

The backbone extraction process is pivotal in expediting analysis and enhancing
visualization in network applications. This study systematically compares seven influential …

The constantly growing size of real-world networks is a great challenge. Therefore, building
a compact version of networks allowing their analyses is a must. Backbone extraction …