The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented global
event that has been challenging governments, health systems, and communities worldwide …

Recent quantitative approaches for studying several aspects of urban life and infrastructure
have shown that scale properties allow the understanding of many features of urban …

Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology turns to complex systems thinking
in search of a suitable framework to explore social complexity in Archaeology. Social …

This article presents a brief overview of the main network models that use growth and
preferential attachment. We start with the classical model proposed by Barabási and Albert …

Defining and measuring spatial inequalities across the urban environment remains a
complex and elusive task which has been facilitated by the increasing availability of large …

In this work, we develop a general method for estimating the Shannon entropy of a
bidimensional sequence based on the extrapolation of block entropies. We apply this …

Cities are different worldwide, but does this fact have any relation to culture? The idea that
urban form embodies idiosyncrasies related to cultural identities captures the imagination of …

Critical infrastructure (CI) services are crucial to the functioning of modern communities, and
a single CI failure can cause cascading effects through a network of services, impacting an …

Quantifying the urbanization level is an essential yet challenging task in urban studies
because of the high complexity of this phenomenon. The urbanization degree has been …

We investigate the performance of entropy estimation methods, based either on block
entropies or compression approaches, in the case of bidimensional sequences. We …