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Network topology effects on the social circle polls
Giovanni Palermo, Emanuele Brugnoli, Ruggiero D. Lo Sardo +3
Election polls play a critical role in political discussions by probing public opinion and enabling political parties to assess their performance before elections. However, traditi…
From trust in news to disagreement: is misinformation more controversial?
Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Emanuele Brugnoli, Enrico Ubaldi +2
The growing prevalence of fruitless disagreement threatens social cohesion and constructive public discourse. While polarised discussions often reflect distrust in the news, the li…
Recommender systems may enhance the discovery of novelties
Giordano De Marzo, Pietro Gravino, Vittorio Loreto
Recommender systems are vital for shaping user online experiences. While some believe they may limit new content exploration and promote opinion polarization, a systematic analysis…
The geography of innovation dynamics
Matteo Straccamore, Vittorio Loreto, Pietro Gravino
Cities and metropolitan areas are major drivers of creativity and innovation in all possible sectors: scientific, technological, social, artistic, etc. The critical concentration a…
Exploitation and exploration in text evolution. Quantifying planning and translation flows during writing
Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Pietro Gravino, Christine Cuskley +1
Writing is a complex process at the center of much of modern human activity. Despite it appears to be a linear process, writing conceals many highly non-linear processes. Previous…
Urban Economic Fitness and Complexity from Patent Data
Matteo Straccamore, Matteo Bruno, Bernardo Monechi +1
Over the years, the growing availability of extensive datasets about registered patents allowed researchers to better understand technological innovation drivers. In this work, we…
Evolving Collaboration, Dependencies, and Use in the Rust Open Source Software Ecosystem
William Schueller, Johannes Wachs, Vito D. P. Servedio +2
Open-source software (OSS) is widely spread in industry, research, and government. OSS represents an effective development model because it harnesses the decentralized efforts of m…
Social interactions affect discovery processes
Gabriele Di Bona, Enrico Ubaldi, Iacopo Iacopini +3
Our network of acquaintances determines how we get exposed to ideas, products, or cultural artworks (books, music, movies, etc.). Though this principle is part of our common sense,…
Loss of sustainability in scientific work
Niklas Reisz, Vito D. P. Servedio, Vittorio Loreto +3
For decades the number of scientific publications has been rapidly increasing, effectively out-dating knowledge at a tremendous rate. Only few scientific milestones remain relevant…
Assessing disinformation through the dynamics of supply and demand in the news ecosystem
Pietro Gravino, Giulio Prevedello, Martina Galletti +1
Social dialogue, the foundation of our democracies, is currently threatened by disinformation and partisanship, with their disrupting role on individual and collective awareness an…
Challenges in Complex Systems Science
Maxi San Miguel, Jeffrey H. Johnson, Janos Kertesz +6
FuturICT foundations are social science, complex systems science, and ICT. The main concerns and challenges in the science of complex systems in the context of FuturICT are laid ou…