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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• Statistical mechanics of complex networks
• The structure and function of complex networks
• Community detection in graphs
• Understanding individual human mobility patterns
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• Statistical physics of social dynamics
• Identification of influential spreaders in complex networks
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• Dynamical interplay between awareness and epidemic spreading in multiplex networks
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• Activity driven modeling of time varying networks
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• Modeling bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics
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• Validation of Dunbar's number in Twitter conversations
• The Rich-Club Phenomenon In The Internet Topology
• Long-Term Clustering, Scaling, and Universality in the Temporal Occurrence of Earthquakes
• Universal behavior in a generalized model of contagion
• Suppressing cascades of load in interdependent networks
• Measuring large-scale social networks with high resolution
• Information diffusion epidemics in social networks
• A Poissonian explanation for heavy-tails in e-mail communication
• Simulation of an SEIR infectious disease model on the dynamic contact network of conference attendees
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• Path lengths, correlations, and centrality in temporal networks
• Impact of non-Poisson activity patterns on spreading processes
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• Time varying networks and the weakness of strong ties
• Causality-Driven Slow-Down and Speed-Up of Diffusion in Non-Markovian Temporal Networks
• The dynamical strength of social ties in information spreading
• Temporal motifs in time-dependent networks
• The Spontaneous Emergence of Social Influence in Online Systems
• High-accuracy approximation of binary-state dynamics on networks
• Topological strata of weighted complex networks
• Controlling Contagion Processes in Time-Varying Networks
• Emergence of communities in weighted networks
• Representing higher-order dependencies in 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
• Structural and Dynamical Patterns on Online Social Networks: the Spanish May 15th Movement as a case study
• 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
• Quantifying the effect of temporal resolution on time-varying networks
• Social network dynamics of face-to-face interactions
• Modeling the adoption of innovations in the presence of geographic and media influences
• Daily rhythms in mobile telephone communication
• Optimal Containment of Epidemics in Temporal and Adaptive Networks
• Threshold model of cascades in temporal networks
• Universality in solar flare and earthquake occurrence
• Sex differences in intimate relationships
• Impact of memory on human dynamics
• Kinetics of Social Contagion
• Bursty communication patterns facilitate spreading in a threshold-based epidemic dynamics
• Modeling Human Dynamics with Adaptive Interest
• Collective response to perturbations in a data-driven fish school model
• Correlated dynamics in egocentric communication networks
• Asymptotic theory for the dynamic of networks with heterogenous social capital allocation
• Topological properties of a time-integrated activity driven network
• Entropy of dynamical social networks
• Measuring burstiness for finite event sequences
• Randomized reference models for temporal networks
• From calls to communities: a model for time varying social networks
• Effects of temporal correlations on cascades: Threshold models on temporal networks
• The Impact of Heterogeneous Thresholds on Social Contagion with Multiple Initiators
• Threshold driven contagion on weighted networks
• Nonequilibrium phase transitions and finite size scaling in weighted scale-free networks
• Centrality scaling in large networks
• Quasi-stationary analysis of the contact process on annealed scale-free networks
• Correlated bursts and the role of memory range
• Spatiotemporal correlations of handset-based service usages
• Poissonian bursts in e-mail correspondence
• Communities and beyond: mesoscopic analysis of a large social network with complementary methods
• Broad lifetime distributions for ordering dynamics in complex networks
• Joint embedding of structure and features via graph convolutional networks
• Modelling bursty time series
• Critical behavior of the contact process in annealed scale-free networks
• Mechanistic Models in Computational Social Science
• Slow, bursty dynamics as the consequence of quenched network topologies
• Correlations and dynamics of consumption patterns in social-economic networks
• Understanding Complex Systems: From Networks to Optimal Higher-Order Models
• Complex networks as an emerging property of hierarchical preferential attachment
• Understanding and coping with extremism in an online collaborative environment
• Timing interactions in social simulations: The voter model