In recent years the research community has accumulated overwhelming evidence for the
emergence of complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns in a wide range of …

This article reviews and presents various solved and open problems in the development,
analysis, and control of epidemic models. The proper modeling and analysis of spreading …

Over the past decade, the use of networks has led to a new modelling paradigm combining
several branches of science, including physics, mathematics, biology and social sciences …

The ongoing rapid expansion of the Word Wide Web (WWW) greatly increases the
information of effective transmission from heterogeneous individuals to various systems …

Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an
undesired state when forced across a “tipping point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …

Research on social networks has exploded over the last decade. To a large extent, this has
been fueled by the spectacular growth of social media and online social networking sites …

Influence maximization is the problem of selecting top k seed nodes in a social network to
maximize their influence coverage under certain influence diffusion models. In this paper …

The study of network robustness is a critical tool in the characterization and sense making of
complex interconnected systems such as infrastructure, communication and social networks …

The recent explosion in the adoption of search engines and new media such as blogs and
Twitter have facilitated faster propagation of news and rumors. How quickly does a piece of …

Controlling the dissemination of an entity (eg, meme, virus, etc) on a large graph is an
interesting problem in many disciplines. Examples include epidemiology, computer security …