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Interacting discovery processes on complex networks
Iacopo Iacopini, Gabriele Di Bona, Enrico Ubaldi +2
Innovation is the driving force of human progress. Recent urn models reproduce well the dynamics through which the discovery of a novelty may trigger further ones, in an expanding…
The exploration of the Adjacent Possible explains the emergence and evolution of social networks
Enrico Ubaldi, Raffaella Burioni, Vittorio Loreto +1
The interactions among human beings represent the backbone of our societies. How people interact, establish new connections, and allocate their activities among these links can rev…
Quantifying exaptation in scientific evolution
Márcia R. Ferreira, Niklas Reisz, William Schueller +3
Rediscovering a new function for something can be just as important as the discovery itself. In 1982, Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth Vrba named this phenomenon Exaptation to descr…
Hamiltonian Modeling of Macro-Economic Urban Dynamics
Bernardo Monechi, Miguel Ibáñez-Berganza, and Vittorio Loreto
The ongoing rapid urbanization phenomena make the understanding of the evolution of urban environments of utmost importance to improve the well-being and steer societies towards be…
Unsupervised inference approach to facial attractiveness
Miguel Ibáñez-Berganza, Ambra Amico, Gian Luca Lancia +3
The perception of facial beauty is a complex phenomenon depending on many, detailed and global facial features influencing each other. In the machine learning community this proble…
Subjectivity and complexity of facial attractiveness
Miguel Ibáñez-Berganza, Ambra Amico, Vittorio Loreto
The origin and meaning of facial beauty represent a longstanding puzzle. Despite the profuse literature devoted to facial attractiveness, its very nature, its determinants and the…