A paramount research challenge in network and complex systems science is to understand
the dissemination of diseases, information and behaviour. The COVID-19 pandemic and the …

The ongoing rapid expansion of the Word Wide Web (WWW) greatly increases the
information of effective transmission from heterogeneous individuals to various systems …

Complex networks have been successfully used to describe the spread of diseases in
populations of interacting individuals. Conversely, pairwise interactions are often not …

Non-technical summary Transforming towards global sustainability requires a dramatic
acceleration of social change. Hence, there is growing interest in finding 'positive tip** …

Could social media data aid in disaster response and damage assessment? Countries face
both an increasing frequency and an increasing intensity of natural disasters resulting from …

This book is principally intended for social scientists wanting to undertake social network
research. It assumes the reader already knows a thing or two (perhaps even a lot) about …

The propagations of diseases, behaviors and information in real systems are rarely
independent of each other, but they are coevolving with strong interactions. To uncover the …

Social media are used as main discussion channels by millions of individuals every day.
The content individuals produce in daily social-media-based micro-communications, and the …

It has recently become possible to study the dynamics of information diffusion in techno-
social systems at scale, due to the emergence of online platforms, such as Twitter, with …

From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce
and transmit culture is radically changing. Understanding the consequences of the massive …