backbone: An R package to extract network backbones

ZP Neal - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Networks are useful for representing phenomena in a broad range of domains. Although
their ability to represent complexity can be a virtue, it is sometimes useful to focus on a …

A hierarchical network-oriented analysis of user participation in misinformation spread on WhatsApp

GP Nobre, CHG Ferreira, JM Almeida - Information Processing & …, 2022 - Elsevier
WhatsApp emerged as a major communication platform in many countries in the recent
years. Despite offering only one-to-one and small group conversations, WhatsApp has been …

Knowledge diffusion in the network of international business travel

M Coscia, FMH Neffke, R Hausmann - Nature human behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
We use aggregated and anonymized information based on international expenditures
through corporate payment cards to map the network of global business travel. We combine …

Detecting informative higher-order interactions in statistically validated hypergraphs

F Musciotto, F Battiston, RN Mantegna - Communications Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Recent empirical evidence has shown that in many real-world systems, successfully
represented as networks, interactions are not limited to dyads, but often involve three or …

A mechanism for load balancing routing and virtualization based on SDWSN for IoT applications

E Hajian, MR Khayyambashi, N Movahhedinia - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are important communication components of an internet of
things (IoT). With the development of IoT and the increasing number of connected devices …

The value of complementary co-workers

FMH Neffke - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
As individuals specialize in specific knowledge areas, a society's know-how becomes
distributed across different workers. To use this distributed know-how, workers must be …

On the dynamics of political discussions on instagram: A network perspective

CHG Ferreira, F Murai, APC Silva, JM Almeida… - Online Social Networks …, 2021 - Elsevier
Instagram has been increasingly used as a source of information especially among the
youth. As a result, political figures now leverage the platform to spread opinions and political …

The atlas for the aspiring network scientist

M Coscia - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00863, 2021 - arxiv.org
Network science is the field dedicated to the investigation and analysis of complex systems
via their representations as networks. We normally model such networks as graphs: sets of …

On network backbone extraction for modeling online collective behavior

CH Gomes Ferreira, F Murai, APC Silva, M Trevisan… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Collective user behavior in social media applications often drives several important online
and offline phenomena linked to the spread of opinions and information. Several studies …

A pólya urn approach to information filtering in complex networks

R Marcaccioli, G Livan - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
The increasing availability of data demands for techniques to filter information in large
complex networks of interactions. A number of approaches have been proposed to extract …