Dark web marketplaces (DWMs) are online platforms that facilitate illicit trade among
millions of users generating billions of dollars in annual revenue. Recently, two interview …

Many systems of socioeconomic interests find a convenient representation in the form of
temporal networks, ie, sets of nodes and interactions occurring at specified times. In the …

Filtering information in complex networks entails the process of removing interactions
explained by a proper null hypothesis and retaining the remaining interactions, which form …

This paper provides new tools for analyzing spatio-temporal event networks. We build time
series of directed event networks for a set of spatial distances, and based on scan-statistics …

Abstract Information diffusion in complex networks has become quite an active research
topic. As an important part of this field, intervention against information diffusion processes is …

Temporal networks have become increasingly pervasive in many real-world applications,
including the functional connectivity analysis of spatially separated regions of the brain. A …

Since the development of Bitcoin in 2008, blockchain-based technologies have flourished
and several applications have been created, such as smart contracts, NFTs or …

What does it mean to unveil a network of interactions? In this dissertation, we will enrich the
field of network theory by studying innovative approaches and ideas to reconstruct missing …

The development of accurate predictions of the spread of real-world diseases requires an
interdisciplinary effort. Epidemiology, social sciences, and network science are the three …