Esports have increased in popularity among young people over the past decade. There is
evidence that involvement in esports helps young players to develop skills that are needed …

In the past years, network theory has successfully characterized the interaction among the
constituents of a variety of complex systems, ranging from biological to technological, and …

Evolutionary game theory is a truly interdisciplinary subject that goes well beyond the limits
of biology. Mathematical minds get hooked up in simple models for evolution and often …

In most natural and engineered systems, a set of entities interact with each other in
complicated patterns that can encompass multiple types of relationships, change in time and …

This book is principally intended for social scientists wanting to undertake social network
research. It assumes the reader already knows a thing or two (perhaps even a lot) about …

In recent years, we have witnessed the rapid proliferation and widespread adoption of a new
class of information technologies, commonly known as social media. Researchers often rely …

The striking growth of online communities in recent years has sparked significant interest in
understanding and quantifying benefits of participation. While research has begun to …

The capacity to collect fingerprints of individuals in online media has revolutionized the way
researchers explore human society. Social systems can be seen as a nonlinear …

The rise of big data—data that are not only large and massively multivariate but concern a
dizzying array of phenomena—represents a watershed moment for the social sciences …

Counting the frequency of small subgraphs is a fundamental technique in network analysis
across various domains, most notably in bioinformatics and social networks. The special …