Computational Human Dynamics

Abstract

This thesis summarises my scientific contributions in the domain of network science, human dynamics and computational social science. These contributions are associated to computer science, physics, statistics, and applied mathematics. The goal of this thesis is twofold, on one hand to write a concise summary of my most interesting scientific contributions, and on the other hand to provide an up-to-date view and perspective about my field. I start my dissertation with an introduction to position the reader on the landscape of my field and to put in perspective my contributions. In the second chapter I concentrate on my works on bursty human dynamics, addressing heterogeneous temporal characters of human actions and interactions. Next, I discuss my contributions to the field of temporal networks and give a synthesises of my works on various methods of the representation, characterisation, and modelling of time-varying structures. Finally, I discuss my works on the data-driven observations and modelling of collective social phenomena. There, I summarise studies on the static observations of emergent patterns of socioeconomic inequalities and their correlations with social-communication networks, and with linguistic patterns. I also discuss dynamic observations and modelling of social contagion processes.

Habilitation thesis, ENS Lyon (2019) - 148 pages, 49 figures

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• Understanding individual human mobility patterns
• Statistical physics of social dynamics
• Efficient Immunization Strategies for Computer Networks and Populations
• Reaction-diffusion processes and metapopulation models in heterogeneous networks
• Dynamics of person-to-person interactions from distributed RFID sensor networks
• Activity driven modeling of time varying networks
• Small But Slow World: How Network Topology and Burstiness Slow Down Spreading
• Validation of Dunbar's number in Twitter conversations
• The Rich-Club Phenomenon In The Internet Topology
• A Poissonian explanation for heavy-tails in e-mail communication
• Path lengths, correlations, and centrality in temporal networks
• Invasion threshold in heterogeneous metapopulation networks
• Emergence of communities in weighted networks
• Network reachability of real-world contact sequences
• Beyond word frequency: Bursts, lulls, and scaling in the temporal distributions of words
• On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity
• Stream Graphs and Link Streams for the Modeling of Interactions over Time
• Dynamical and bursty interactions in social networks
• Analysis of complex contagions in random multiplex networks
• Social network dynamics of face-to-face interactions
• Universality in solar flare and earthquake occurrence
• Impact of memory on human dynamics
• Modeling Human Dynamics with Adaptive Interest
• Collective response to perturbations in a data-driven fish school model
• Quasi-stationary analysis of the contact process on annealed scale-free networks
• Spatiotemporal correlations of handset-based service usages
• Broad lifetime distributions for ordering dynamics in complex networks
• Correlations and dynamics of consumption patterns in social-economic networks