Can digital technology promote sustainable agriculture? Empirical evidence from urban China

L Liu, K Liu - Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the face of increasing global unsustainable risks such as poverty, hunger, and pollution.
Building sustainable agriculture (SA) in the digital age is a fundamental task for human …

Revenues of network platforms: can they be expected to follow a growth 'law'?

VAN Leo, M POLASIK, R Kotkowski - Technology in Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent papers assume that whereas the value of 'traditional'communications networks
follows Metcalfe's law–that is, grows with the square of the number of users–the value of …

Modelling the growth of the network value

A Scala, M Delmastro - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate the evolution of network effects, specifically focusing on the emerging
paradigm of third-generation networks known as group-forming networks (GFNs). In contrast …

Scaling Laws of Network Traffic Load: A Theoretical Explanation of Metcalfe's Law

C Wang, Y Wang, C Jiang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11110, 2023 - arxiv.org
Metcalfe's Law captures the relationship between a network's value, and its scale, asserting
that a network's value is directly proportional to the square of its size. Over the past four …

User generated growth on social media platforms–weak ties and internationalization

J Virtanen - 2023 - osuva.uwasa.fi
This thesis focuses on user facilitated growth on digital platforms–more specifically on social
media. In previous research, weak ties have been recognized for their power of connecting …