Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

A great variety of systems in nature, society and technology–from the web of sexual contacts
to the Internet, from the nervous system to power grids–can be modeled as graphs of …

Financial crises result from a catastrophic combination of actions. Vast stock market datasets
offer us a window into some of the actions that have led to these crises. Here, we investigate …

人类行为的定量化分析, 特别是时空统计规律的挖掘和建模, 是当前统计物理与复杂性科学研究
的热点. 对人类行为的深入理解, 有助于解释若干复杂的社会经济现象, 并在舆情监控, 疾病防治 …

User-generated content (UGC) platforms on the Internet have experienced a steep increase
in data contributions in recent years. The ubiquitous usage of location-enabled devices …

Use of socially generated “big data” to access information about collective states of the
minds in human societies has become a new paradigm in the emerging field of …

In this work we study the dynamical features of editorial wars in Wikipedia (WP). Based on
our previously established algorithm, we build up samples of controversial and peaceful …

Circadian rhythms influence most of our life activities, notably getting up and going to sleep
every day. The new edition of this book delves into the mechanisms surrounding how these …

Bursty dynamics is a common temporal property of various complex systems in nature but it
also characterises the dynamics of human actions and interactions. At the …

Complex systems are characterised by specific time-dependent interactions among their
many constituents. As a consequence they often manifest rich, non-trivial and unexpected …