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Special Issue of the 12th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications

Since 2012, the International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS) brings together researchers from different scientific communities working on areas related to network science in order to cross-fertilize ideas among scientists. The contributions selected for submission to this topical issue reflect the latest challenges, advances, and diversity within the network science community.
 

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. 

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Submission deadline: 30 April 2024

Lead Guest Editor
Hocine Cherifi, PhD
University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
hocine.cherifi@gmail.com 
 

Guest Editors
Roberto Interdonato, PhD
CIRAD Montpellier, France
roberto.interdonato@cirad.fr

Hamida Seba, PhD
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
hamida.seba@univ-lyon1.fr 

Matteo Zignani, PhD
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
matteo.zignani@unimi.it 

For more information please contact the guest editors. 

  1. Social network analysis and shared-patient physician networks have become effective ways of studying physician collaborations. Assortative mixing or “homophily” is the network phenomenon whereby the propensity...

    Authors: Xin Ran, Ellen Meara, Nancy E. Morden, Erika L. Moen, Daniel N. Rockmore and A. James O’Malley
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:63
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Distributed control can increase system scalability, flexibility, and redundancy. Foundational to such scalability via decentralisation is consensus formation, by which decision-making and coordination are ach...

    Authors: Agathe Bouis, Christopher Lowe, Ruaridh A. Clark and Malcolm Macdonald
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:61
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  5. Portfolio allocation represents a significant challenge within financial markets, traditionally relying on correlation or covariance matrices to delineate relationships among stocks. However, these methodologi...

    Authors: Marco Gregnanin, Yanyi Zhang, Johannes De Smedt, Giorgio Gnecco and Maurizio Parton
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:54
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  6. We employ Kuramoto model to assess the presence of synchronization in individuals who fulfill a cooperation task. Our input data is a couple of signals obtained from functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Data ...

    Authors: Xhilda Dhamo, Eglantina Kalluçi, Eva Noka, Gérard Dray, Coralie Reveille, Stephane Perrey, Gregoire Bosselut, Darjon Dhamo and Stefan Janaqi
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:53
    Content type: Case Study Published on:

  7. Millions of people use online social networks to reinforce their sense of belonging, for example by giving and asking for feedback as a form of social validation and self-recognition. It is common to observe d...

    Authors: Diletta Goglia and Davide Vega
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:48
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  8. In 2009, Shao et al. (Phys Rev Lett 103(1):018701, 2009) introduced the Non-consensus opinion (NCO) model, which allows different opinions to coexist in the steady state. We propose a mean-field-based dynamica...

    Authors: Xinhan Liu, M. A. Achterberg and Robert Kooij
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:47
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  9. Consumer-generated media (CGM), including social live streaming service (SLSS), often incorporate gamification elements to engage users. Online virtual tips and gifts, such as “bits” in Twitch, exemplify this app...

    Authors: Shintaro Ueki, Fujio Toriumi and Toshiharu Sugawara
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:44
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  10. People who inject drugs (PWID) are often members of HIV/AIDS risk networks, where individuals engage in sexual and injection risk behavior. Engagement in HIV care is important for this population. Low socioeco...

    Authors: Ayako Shimada, Ashley L. Buchanan, Natallia V. Katenka, Benjamin Skov, Gabrielle Lemire, Stephen Kogut and Samuel R. Friedman
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:43
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  11. Motivated by the significance and complexity of exploring spatiotemporal patterns - regions within an urban environment, particularly in the context of extreme heat events- this research analyzes meteorologica...

    Authors: Avraam Charakopoulos, Theodoros Karakasidis, Konstantinos Ziliaskopoulos and Chrysi Laspidou
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:42
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  12. As networks grow in size and complexity, backbones become an essential network representation. Indeed, they provide a simplified yet informative overview of the underlying organization by retaining the most si...

    Authors: Sanaa Hmaida, Hocine Cherifi and Mohammed El Hassouni
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:41
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  14. Network visualization is an important tool for extracting information from the structure and configuration of a network, especially when the network includes weighted edges and nodes with attribute information...

    Authors: Emily Chao-Hui Huang, Frederick Kin Hing Phoa and Yan-Hong Chen
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:37
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  15. Networks provide an understandable and, in the case of small size, visualizable representation of data, which allows us to obtain essential information about the relationships between pairs of nodes, e.g., the...

    Authors: Emanuel Dopater, Eliska Ochodkova and Milos Kudelka
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:28
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  17. We present the first formal network analysis of curricular networks for public institutions, focusing around five midwestern universities. As a first such study of public institutions, our analyses are primari...

    Authors: Bonan Yang, Mahdi Gharebhaygloo, Hannah Rachel Rondi, Efrosini Hortis, Emilia Zeledon Lostalo, Xiaolan Huang and Gunes Ercal
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:25
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  18. When an hypothesized peer effect (also termed social influence or contagion) is believed to act between units (e.g., hospitals) above the level at which data is observed (e.g., patients), a network autocorrela...

    Authors: Guanqing Chen and A. James O’Malley
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:24
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. The social networks that interconnect groups of people are often “multi-layered”—comprised of a variety of relationships and interaction types. Although researchers increasingly acknowledge the presence of mul...

    Authors: Aaron Thomas Clark, Jennifer M. Larson and Janet I. Lewis
    Citation: Applied Network Science 2024 9:18
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