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Heterogeneous peer effects of college roommates on academic performance
Yi Cao, Tao Zhou, Jian Gao
Understanding how student peers influence learning outcomes is crucial for effective education management in complex social systems. The complexities of peer selection and evolving…
Substantial but heterogeneous impacts of high-speed rail on talent flow in China
Mei Xie, Jian Gao, Tao Zhou
The great expansion of high-speed rail (HSR) in China facilitates communications and interactions among people across cities. Despite extensive literature documenting the effects o…
Computational Socioeconomics
Jian Gao, Yi-Cheng Zhang, Tao Zhou
Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic process…
Regional economic status inference from information flow and talent mobility
Jun Wang, Jian Gao, Jin-Hu Liu +2
Novel data has been leveraged to estimate socioeconomic status in a timely manner, however, direct comparison on the use of social relations and talent movements remains rare. In t…
A trust-based recommendation method using network diffusion processes
Ling-Jiao Chen, Jian Gao
A variety of rating-based recommendation methods have been extensively studied including the well-known collaborative filtering approaches and some network diffusion-based methods,…
Maximizing the Collective Learning Effects in Regional Economic Development
Jian Gao
Collective learning in economic development has been revealed by recent empirical studies, however, investigations on how to benefit most from its effects remain still lacking. In…
Relatedness, Knowledge Diffusion, and the Evolution of Bilateral Trade
Bogang Jun, Aamena Alshamsi, Jian Gao +1
During the last decades two important contributions have reshaped our understanding of international trade. First, countries trade more with those with whom they share history, lan…
Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development
Jian Gao, Bogang Jun, Alex "Sandy" Pentland +2
Industrial development is the process by which economies learn how to produce new products and services. But how do economies learn? And who do they learn from? The literature on e…
Quantifying China's Regional Economic Complexity
Jian Gao, Tao Zhou
China has experienced an outstanding economic expansion during the past decades, however, literature on non-monetary metrics that reveal the status of China's regional economic dev…
Critical size of ego communication networks
Qing Wang, Jian Gao, Tao Zhou +2
With the help of information and communication technologies, studies on the overall social networks have been extensively reported recently. However, investigations on the directed…
A vertex similarity index for better personalized recommendation
Ling-Jiao Chen, Zi-Ke Zhang, Jin-Hu Liu +2
Recommender systems benefit us in tackling the problem of information overload by predicting our potential choices among diverse niche objects. So far, a variety of personalized re…
Evaluating user reputation in online rating systems via an iterative group-based ranking method
Jian Gao, Tao Zhou
Reputation is a valuable asset in online social lives and it has drawn increased attention. How to evaluate user reputation in online rating systems is especially significant due t…
Promotion and resignation in employee networks
Jia Yuan, Qian-Ming Zhang, Jian Gao +4
Enterprises have put more and more emphasis on data analysis so as to obtain effective management advices. Managers and researchers are trying to dig out the major factors that lea…
Group-based ranking method for online rating systems with spamming attacks
Jian Gao, Yu-Wei Dong, Mingsheng Shang +2
Ranking problem has attracted much attention in real systems. How to design a robust ranking method is especially significant for online rating systems under the threat of spamming…
Bootstrap percolation on spatial networks
Jian Gao, Tao Zhou, Yanqing Hu
We numerically study bootstrap percolation on Kleinberg's spatial networks, in which the probability density function of a node to have a long-range link at distance scales as…