8 papers
How large should academic departments be?
Jan Bachmann, Lisette EspÃn-Noboa, Fariba Karimi +3
Academic departments are the primary unit of scholarship and education at universities, and they vary vastly in their sizes. However, the consequences and natural dynamics of depar…
Statistical inference of dynamical processes on networks
Javier Ureña-Carrion, Tiago P. Peixoto, Gerardo Iñiguez
Mechanisms of interaction in spreading models are central to our quantitative understanding of networked contagion processes, from disease transmission to opinion dynamics. Yet, wh…
Preferentiality and bandwidth drive tie activity in online and offline ego networks
Gamal Adel, Shrichand Bhuria, Alessandro Catalano +7
Ego networks capture the variety of structural patterns in the social interactions of individuals. Recently it has been shown that ego networks in online settings display universal…
Universal time scales linking topology and dynamics in temporal networks
Giulia de Meijere, Marton Karsai, Gerardo Iniguez
Temporal networks underlie a wide range of social, technological, and biological phenomena, highlighting how temporal inhomogeneities drive interactions in complex systems. Despite…
Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond
Michele Starnini, Fabian Baumann, Tobias Galla +5
Opinion dynamics, the study of how individual beliefs and collective public opinion evolve, is a fertile domain for applying statistical physics to complex social phenomena. Like p…
To trace or not to trace: analytical insights from network-based contact-tracing models
Giulia de Meijere, Andrea Pugliese, Gerardo Iñiguez +2
Contact tracing is one of the most important control measures deployed during epidemics. Relying on the identification of contacts of known infected individuals, it necessitates a…