ABSTRACT Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALNs) make the process of collaboration
more transparent, because a transcript of conference messages can be used to assess …

My original intention was to stay in the Netherlands for one rainy year, but somehow I stayed
for seven. During this time I wrote one thesis. For this undertaking the support of the …

As association is a kind of subjective thinking, we take men's subjective feeling as the
standard when choosing the possible association starting points. For example, the …

Large systems in nature and civilization share some important organizing principles
uncovered in the framework of complex network research. Here we aim to present a few …

In this paper, an improved genetic algorithm is presented to solve the multicast routing
problem, which is known as NP-complete problem. The contribution of this work includes:(1) …

While current studies on complex networks focus on systems that change relatively slowly in
time, the structure of the most visited regions of the Web is altered at the timescale from …

The Watts and Strogatz model of small-world network systems has been successfully
applied to explain features in several data sets. We have carried out a set of extensive …

This thesis presents applications of statistical physics to the study of the structure and
dynamics of social systems, that is, systems whose interactions are based on information …

We have built a tool for inspecting and managing data lakes. The motivations for creating
this tool are 1) schema discovery (determining links pertinent to solving a data analysis …

Although network ideas are fashionable in recent social science, there has been only limited
engagement with the two bodies of thinking where networks have been subject to extensive …