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Temporal dynamics of online petitions
Lucas Böttcher, Olivia Woolley-Meza, Dirk Brockmann
Online petitions are an important avenue for direct political action, yet the dynamics that determine when a petition will be successful are not well understood. Here we analyze th…
Connectivity disruption sparks explosive epidemic spreading
L. Böttcher, O. Woolley-Meza, E. Goles +2
We investigate the spread of an infection or other malfunction of cascading nature when a system component can recover only if it remains reachable from a functioning central compo…
Disease-induced resource constraints can trigger explosive epidemics
Lucas Böttcher, Olivia Woolley-Meza, Nuno A. M. Araújo +2
Advances in mathematical epidemiology have led to a better understanding of the risks posed by epidemic spreading and informed strategies to contain disease spread. However, a chal…
Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute
Dirk Helbing, Dirk Brockmann, Thomas Chadefaux +8
We discuss models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease spreading to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence strategies, are often not effective…