The atlas for the aspiring network scientist

M Coscia - arxiv preprint arxiv:2101.00863, 2021 - arxiv.org
Network science is the field dedicated to the investigation and analysis of complex systems
via their representations as networks. We normally model such networks as graphs: sets of …

Information-theoretic portfolio decision model for optimal flood management

M Convertino, A Annis, F Nardi - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2019 - Elsevier
The increasing impact of flooding urges more effective flood management strategies to
guarantee sustainable ecosystem development. Recent catastrophes underline the …

Risk of global external cereals supply under the background of the COVID-19 pandemic: Based on the perspective of trade network

C Zhang, Y Yang, Z Feng, C **ao, T Lang, W Du, Y Liu - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
International food trade is an integral part of the food system, and the COVID-19 pandemic
has exposed the fragility of external food supplies. Based on the perspective of cereals trade …

International crop trade networks: The impact of shocks and cascades

R Burkholz, F Schweitzer - Environmental research letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Analyzing available FAO data from 176 countries over 21 years, we observe an increase of
complexity in the international trade of maize, rice, soy, and wheat. A larger number of …

Struggling with change: The fragile resilience of collectives

F Schweitzer, C Zingg… - … on Psychological Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Collectives form nonequilibrium social structures characterized by volatile dynamics.
Individuals join or leave. Social relations change quickly. Therefore, unlike engineered or …

The cereal network: a baseline approach to current configurations of trade communities

RG Robu, AP Alexoaei, V Cojanu, D Miron - Agricultural and Food …, 2024 - Springer
This paper attempts to provide insights into the current network configurations of the food-
trade system and to study the short-term effects of one of the ongoing and lasting global …

Evolutionary dynamics in financial markets with heterogeneities in investment strategies and reference points

WJ Xu, CY Zhong, F Ren, T Qiu, RD Chen, YX He… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
In nature and human societies, the effects of homogeneous and heterogeneous
characteristics on the evolution of collective behaviors are quite different from each other. By …

Systemic risk in multiplex networks with asymmetric coupling and threshold feedback

R Burkholz, MV Leduc, A Garas, F Schweitzer - Physica D: Nonlinear …, 2016 - Elsevier
We study cascades on a two-layer multiplex network, with asymmetric feedback that
depends on the coupling strength between the layers. Based on an analytical branching …

Modeling social resilience: Questions, answers, open problems

F Schweitzer, G Andres, G Casiraghi… - Advances in Complex …, 2022 - World Scientific
Resilience denotes the capacity of a system to withstand shocks and its ability to recover
from them. We develop a framework to quantify the resilience of highly volatile, non …

Emergence of frustration signals systemic risk

C Kuyyamudi, AS Chakrabarti, S Sinha - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
We show that the emergence of systemic risk in complex systems can be understood from
the evolution of functional networks representing interactions inferred from fluctuation …