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Motif analysis and passing behavior in football passing networks
Ming-Xia Li, Li-Gong Xu, Wei-Xing Zhou
The strategic orchestration of football matchplays profoundly influences game outcomes, motivating a surge in research aimed at uncovering tactical nuances through social network a…
Statistical properties of user activity fluctuations in virtual worlds
Yan-Hong Yang, Wen-Jie Xie, Ming-Xia Li +2
User activity fluctuations reflect the performance of online society. We investigate the statistical properties of 1-min user activity time series of simultaneously online users in…
Non-Poisson donation behaviors in virtual worlds
Yan-Hong Yang, Ming-Xia Li, Wei-Xing Zhou +1
Similar to charitable giving in real world, donation behaviors play an important role in the complex interactions among individuals in virtual worlds. However, it is not clear if t…
Network analysis of the worldwide footballer transfer market
Ming-Xia Li, Wei-Xing Zhou, H. Eugene Stanley
The transfer of football players is an important part in football games. Most studies on the transfer of football players focus on the transfer system and transfer fees but not on…
Individual position diversity in dependence socioeconomic networks increases economic output
Wen-Jie Xie, Yan-Hong Yang, Ming-Xia Li +2
The availability of big data recorded from massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) allows us to gain a deeper understanding of the potential connection between in…
Quantifying immediate price impact of trades based on the -shell decomposition of stock trading networks
Wen-Jie Xie, Ming-Xia Li, Hai-Chuan Xu +3
Traders in a stock market exchange stock shares and form a stock trading network. Trades at different positions of the stock trading network may contain different information. We c…
Communication cliques in mobile phone calling networks
Ming-Xia Li, Wen-Jie Xie, Zhi-Qiang Jiang +1
People in modern societies form different social networks through numerous means of communication. These communication networks reflect different aspects of human's societal struct…
Two-state Markov-chain Poisson nature of individual cellphone call statistics
Zhi-Qiang Jiang, Wen-Jie Xie, Ming-Xia Li +2
Humans are heterogenous and the behaviors of individuals could be different from that at the population level. We conduct an in-depth study of the temporal patterns of cellphone co…
Division of labor, skill complementarity, and heterophily in socioeconomic networks
Wen-Jie Xie, Ming-Xia Li, Zhi-Qiang Jiang +4
Constituents of complex systems interact with each other and self-organize to form complex networks. Empirical results show that the link formation process of many real networks fo…
Weiqi games as a tree: Zipf's law of openings and beyond
Li-Gong Xu, Ming-Xia Li, Wei-Xing Zhou
Weiqi is one of the most complex board games played by two persons. The placement strategies adopted by Weiqi players are often used to analog the philosophy of human wars. Contrar…
Triadic motifs in the dependence networks of virtual societies
Wen-Jie Xie, Ming-Xia Li, Zhi-Qiang Jiang +1
In friendship networks, individuals have different numbers of friends, and the closeness or intimacy between an individual and her friends is heterogeneous. Using a statistical fil…
Statistically validated mobile communication networks: Evolution of motifs in European and Chinese data
Ming-Xia Li, Vasyl Palchykov, Zhi-Qiang Jiang +6
Big data open up unprecedented opportunities to investigate complex systems including the society. In particular, communication data serve as major sources for computational social…
A comparative analysis of the statistical properties of large mobile phone calling networks
Ming-Xia Li, Zhi-Qiang Jiang, Wen-Jie Xie +4
Mobile phone calling is one of the most widely used communication methods in modern society. The records of calls among mobile phone users provide us a valuable proxy for the under…
Unveiling correlations between financial variables and topological metrics of trading networks: Evidence from a stock and its warrant
Ming-Xia Li, Zhi-Qiang Jiang, Wen-Jie Xie +3
Traders adopt different trading strategies to maximize their returns in financial markets. These trading strategies not only results in specific topological structures in trading n…
Calling patterns in human communication dynamics
Zhi-Qiang Jiang, Wen-Jie Xie, Ming-Xia Li +3
Modern technologies not only provide a variety of communication modes, e.g., texting, cellphone conversation, and online instant messaging, but they also provide detailed electroni…