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 …

It is a fundamental challenge to understand how the function of a network is related to its
structural organization. Adaptive dynamical networks represent a broad class of systems that …

In the past years, network theory has successfully characterized the interaction among the
constituents of a variety of complex systems, ranging from biological to technological, and …

This paper investigates the leader-following consensus problem of multiagent systems using
a distributed event-triggered impulsive control method. For each agent, the controller is …

Statistical physics has proven to be a fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the
realm of traditional physics. Recent years have witnessed an attempt by physicists to study …

This mini-review presents extensions of the voter model that incorporate various plausible
features of real decision-making processes by individuals. Although these generalizations …

While social media make it easy to connect with and access information from anyone, they
also facilitate basic influence and unfriending mechanisms that may lead to segregated and …

The combination of the compactness of networks, featuring small diameters, and their
complex architectures results in a variety of critical effects dramatically different from those in …

Opinions are an integral part of how we perceive the world and each other. They shape
collective action, playing a role in democratic processes, the evolution of norms, and cultural …

The flow of information reaching us via the online media platforms is optimized not by the
information content or relevance but by popularity and proximity to the target. This is typically …