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Reconstructing MSM Sexual Networks to Guide PrEP Distribution Strategies for HIV Prevention
João Brázia, István Z. Kiss, Alexandre P. Francisco +1
Men who have sex with men (MSM) remain disproportionately affected by HIV, yet optimizing Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) distribution remains a public health challenge. Current gu…
Ethics in rotten apples: A network epidemiology approach for active cyber defense
Francesco Bonacina, Ignacio Echegoyen, Diego Escribano +5
As Internet of Things (IoT) technology grows, so does the threat of malware infections. A proposed countermeasure, the use of benevolent "white worms" to combat malicious "black wo…
Polarization and multiscale structural balance in signed networks
Szymon Talaga, Massimo Stella, Trevor James Swanson +1
Polarization, understood as a division into mutually hostile groups, is a common feature of social systems. It is studied in Structural Balance Theory (SBT) in terms of semicycles…
Embedding-aided network dismantling
Saeed Osat, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, Andreia Sofia Teixeira +1
Optimal percolation concerns the identification of the minimum-cost strategy for the destruction of any extensive connected components in a network. Solutions of such a dismantling…
Evolution of collective fairness in complex networks through degree-based role assignment
Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Francisco C. Santos, Alexandre P. Francisco +1
From social contracts to climate agreements, individuals engage in groups that must collectively reach decisions with varying levels of equality and fairness. These dilemmas also p…
Revealing semantic and emotional structure of suicide notes with cognitive network science
Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Szymon Talaga, Trevor James Swanson +1
Understanding the cognitive and emotional perceptions of people who commit suicide is one of the most sensitive scientific challenges. There are circumstances where people feel the…
Evaluating the impact of PrEP on HIV and gonorrhea on a networked population of female sex workers
Alba Bernini, Elodie Blouzard, Alberto Bracci +6
Sexual contacts are the main spreading route of HIV. This puts sex workers at higher risk of infection even in populations where HIV prevalence is moderate or low. Alongside condom…
Linking and Cutting Spanning Trees
Luís M. S. Russo, Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Alexandre P Francisco
We consider the problem of uniformly generating a spanning tree, of a connected undirected graph. This process is useful to compute statistics, namely for phylogenetic trees. We de…