Gathering events, eg, going to gyms and meetings, are ubiquitous and crucial in the
spreading phenomena, which induce higher-order interactions, and thus can be described …

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 …

The power of any kind of network approach lies in the ability to simplify a complex system so
that one can better understand its function as a whole. Sometimes it is beneficial, however …

A great variety of systems in nature, society and technology–from the web of sexual contacts
to the Internet, from the nervous system to power grids–can be modeled as graphs of …

The history of linguistics is punctuated by sea changes of culture afforded by new
technologies of communication–first writing, then audio recording and most recently Web 1.0 …

Professor Barabási's talk described how the tools of network science can help understand
the Web's structure, development and weaknesses. The Web is an information network, in …

Inspired by empirical studies of networked systems such as the Internet, social networks,
and biological networks, researchers have in recent years developed a variety of techniques …

Stochastic actor-based models are models for network dynamics that can represent a wide
variety of influences on network change, and allow to estimate parameters expressing such …

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 …

From the Internet to networks of friendship, disease transmission, and even terrorism, the
concept--and the reality--of networks has come to pervade modern society. But what exactly …