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Universality classes in the time evolution of epidemic outbreaks on complex networks
Mateusz J. Samsel, Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak
We investigate the full temporal evolution of epidemic outbreaks in complex networks, focusing on the susceptible-infected (SI) model of disease transmission. Combining theoretical…
Model-based reconstruction of real-world fractal complex networks
Kordian Makulski, Mateusz Samsel, Michal Lepek +2
This paper presents a versatile model for generating fractal complex networks that closely mirror the properties of real-world systems. By combining features of reverse renormaliza…
Interplay between tie strength and neighbourhood topology in complex networks: Granovetter's theory and beyond
Maciej J Mrowinski, Kamil P. Orzechowski, Agata Fronczak +1
Granovetter's weak ties theory is a very important sociological theory according to which a correlation between edge weight and the network's topology should exist. More specifical…
Towards fractal origins of the community structure in complex networks: a model-based approach
Mateusz Samsel, Kordian Makulski, Michał Łepek +2
In this paper, we pose a hypothesis that the structure of communities in complex networks may result from their latent fractal properties. This hypothesis is based not only on the…
Scaling theory of fractal complex networks
Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak, Mateusz Samsel +3
We show that fractality in complex networks arises from the geometric self-similarity of their built-in hierarchical community-like structure, which is mathematically described by…
Scientific success from the perspective of the strength of weak ties
Agata Fronczak, Maciej J. Mrowinski, Piotr Fronczak
We present the first complete confirmation of Granovetter's theory of social networks using a massive dataset. For this purpose, we study a scientific collaboration network, which…
How transfer flights shape structure of the airline network
Tomasz Ryczkowski, Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak
In this paper we analyze the gravity model in the world passenger air-transport network. We show that in the standard form the model is inadequate to correctly describe the relatio…
A new fast algorithm for reproducing complex networks with community structure
Mateusz Kowalczyk, Piotr Fronczak, Agata Fronczak
In this paper, we introduce a new algorithm allowing for generation of networks with heterogeneity of both node degrees and community sizes. The quality and efficiency of the algor…
Day of the week effect in paper submission/acceptance/rejection to/in/by peer review journals
Marcel Ausloos, Olgica Nedic, Aleksandar Dekanski
This paper aims at providing an introduction to the behavior of authors submitting a paper to a scientific journal. Dates of electronic submission of papers to the Journal of the S…
Quantifying the quality of peer reviewers through Zipf's law
Marcel Ausloos, Olgica Nedic, Agata Fronczak +1
This paper introduces a statistical and other analysis of peer reviewers in order to approach their "quality" through some quantification measure, thereby leading to some quality m…
Review times in peer review: quantitative analysis of editorial workflows
Maciej J. Mrowinski, Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak +2
We examine selected aspects of peer review and suggest possible improvements. To this end, we analyse a dataset containing information about 300 papers submitted to the Biochemistr…
Spanning trees of the World Trade Web: real-world data and the gravity model of trade
Patryk Skowron, Mariusz Karpiarz, Agata Fronczak +1
In this paper, we investigate the statistical features of the weighted international-trade network. By finding the maximum weight spanning trees for this network we make the extrac…
International trade network: fractal properties and globalization puzzle
Mariusz Karpiarz, Piotr Fronczak, Agata Fronczak
Globalization is one of the central concepts of our age. The common perception of the process is that, due to declining communication and transport costs, distance becomes less and…
Exponential random graph models for networks with community structure
Piotr Fronczak, Agata Fronczak, Maksymilian Bujok
Although the community structure organization is one of the most important characteristics of real-world networks, the traditional network models fail to reproduce the feature. The…
Theoretical approach and impact of correlations on the critical packet generation rate in traffic dynamics on complex networks
Piotr Fronczak
Using the formalism of the biased random walk in random uncorrelated networks with arbitrary degree distributions, we develop theoretical approach to the critical packet generation…
Taylor's power law for fluctuation scaling in traffic
Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak, Maksymilian Bujok
In this article, we study transportation network in Minnesota. We show that the system is characterized by Taylor's power law for fluctuation scaling with nontrivial values of the…
Origins of Taylor's power law for fluctuation scaling in complex systems
Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak
Taylor's fluctuation scaling (FS) has been observed in many natural and man-made systems revealing an amazing universality of the law. Here we give strong theoretical foundations f…
Phase transitions in social networks
Piotr Fronczak, Agata Fronczak, Janusz A. Hołyst
We study a model of network with clustering and desired node degree. The original purpose of the model was to describe optimal structures of scientific collaboration in the Europea…
Publish or perish: analysis of scientific productivity using maximum entropy principle and fluctuation-dissipation theorem
Piotr Fronczak, Agata Fronczak, Janusz A. Holyst
Using data retrieved from the INSPEC database we have quantitatively discussed a few syndromes of the publish-or-perish phenomenon, including continuous growth of rate of scientifi…
Ferromagnetic fluid as a model of social impact
Piotr Fronczak, Agata Fronczak, Janusz A. Hołyst
The paper proposes a new model of spin dynamics which can be treated as a model of sociological coupling between individuals. Our approach takes into account two different human fe…