Social and behavioural factors are critical to the emergence, spread and containment of
human disease, and are key determinants of the course, duration and outcomes of disease …

Over the past two decades, complex network theory provided the ideal framework for
investigating the intimate relationships between the topological properties characterizing the …

Modeling is essential to characterize and explore complex societal and environmental
issues in systematic and collaborative ways. Socio-environmental systems (SES) modeling …

This is an introductory textbook about the concepts and techniques of mathematical/
computational modeling and analysis developed in the emerging interdisciplinary field of …

Network analysis is a powerful tool that provides us a fruitful framework to describe
phenomena related to social, technological, and many other real-world complex systems. In …

Traditionally, much of the study of networks has focused on structural features. Indeed,
mathematical subjects such as graph theory have a rich history of investigating network …

Information diffusion in online social networks is affected by the underlying network
topology, but it also has the power to change it. Online users are constantly creating new …

International institutions such as treaties and organizations shape, and are shaped by, the
large web-like architecture of global governance. Yet we know little about what this …

The arrangements of particles and forces in granular materials have a complex organization
on multiple spatial scales that range from local structures to mesoscale and system-wide …

In this introductory chapter, we start by briefly summarising temporal and adaptive networks,
and epidemic process models frequently used in this volume. Then, we introduce a couple …