Purpose The purpose of this work is to survey the body of research revolving around big
data (BD) and analytics in hospitality and tourism, by detecting macro topical areas …

Real networks exhibit heterogeneous nature with nodes playing far different roles in
structure and function. To identify vital nodes is thus very significant, allowing us to control …

Finding an optimal set of nodes, called key players, whose activation (or removal) would
maximally enhance (or degrade) a certain network functionality, is a fundamental class of …

Social networks are absolutely a useful and important place for connecting people within the
world. A basic issue in a social network is to identify the key persons within it. This is why …

Network science provides a set of quantitative methods to investigate complex systems,
including human cognition. Although cognitive theories in different domains are strongly …

Throughout the book, we use empirical examples to illustrate the material. Because social
networks are studied in a variety of traditional academic disciplines, we draw our examples …

The term “network interventions” describes the process of using social network data to
accelerate behavior change or improve organizational performance. In this Review, four …

Despite the spread and adoption of social network concepts outside of the academy and the
rising use of social network analysis across a number of disciplines, there is no general …

Complex networks appear in almost every aspect of science and technology. Although most
results in the field have been obtained by analysing isolated networks, many real-world …

The moment when the hyperconnectedness of our world became most evident to me was on
October 20th, 2011, when images of the death of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former …