Microbiota are now widely recognized as being central players in the health of all organisms
and ecosystems, and subsequently have been the subject of intense study. However …

This paper presents a review of the methods of the science of networks with an application
to the field of tourism studies. The basic definitions and computational techniques are …

Quantifying the spatial and interconnected structure of regional to continental scale droughts
is one of the unsolved global hydrology problems, which is important for understanding the …

Real-world networks are often claimed to be scale free, meaning that the fraction of nodes
with degree k follows a power law k− α, a pattern with broad implications for the structure …

We bring rigor to the vibrant activity of detecting power laws in empirical degree distributions
in real-world networks. We first provide a rigorous definition of power-law distributions …

Given a social network, which of its nodes are more central? This question has been asked
many times in sociology, psychology, and computer science, and a whole plethora of …

The purpose of this paper is to advance supply chain network theory by applying theoretical
and empirical developments in complex network literature to the context of supply chains as …

Frigyes Karinthy, in his 1929 short story" Láncszemek"(in English," Chains") suggested that
any two persons are distanced by at most six friendship links. 1 Stanley Milgram in his …

This concise and self-contained introduction builds up the spectral theory of graphs from
scratch, with linear algebra and the theory of polynomials developed in the later parts. The …

A large body of work has been devoted to defining and identifying clusters or communities in
social and information networks, ie, in graphs in which the nodes represent underlying …