3 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
Who Connects Global Aid? The Hidden Geometry of 10 Million Transactions
Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu +1
The global aid system functions as a complex and evolving ecosystem; yet widespread understanding of its structure remains largely limited to aggregate volume flows. Here we map th…
cs.CL2025
Signals from the Floods: AI-Driven Disaster Analysis through Multi-Source Data Fusion
Xian Gong, Paul X. McCarthy, Lin Tian +1
Massive and diverse web data are increasingly vital for government disaster response, as demonstrated by the 2022 floods in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. This study examines ho…
cs.CY2025
Cosmos 1.0: a multidimensional map of the emerging technology frontier
Xian Gong, Paul X. McCarthy, Colin Griffith +2
This paper introduces the Cosmos 1.0 dataset and describes a novel methodology for creating and mapping a universe of technologies, adjacent concepts, and entities. We utilise vari…