{"title":"Measuring the effect of collaborative filtering on the diversity of users’ attention","authors":"Augustin Godinot, Fabien Tarissan","doi":"10.1007/s41109-022-00530-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-022-00530-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37010,"journal":{"name":"Applied Network Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44540859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An efficient weighted network centrality approach for exploring mechanisms of action of the Ruellia herbal formula for treating rheumatoid arthritis","authors":"P. Ochieng, A. Hussain, J. Dombi, Miklós Krész","doi":"10.1007/s41109-022-00527-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-022-00527-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37010,"journal":{"name":"Applied Network Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48686998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democratizing corruption: a role structure analysis of Indonesia’s “Big Bang” decentralization","authors":"M. Silitonga, R. Wittek, T. Snijders, L. Heyse","doi":"10.1007/s41109-023-00535-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-023-00535-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37010,"journal":{"name":"Applied Network Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46680362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial benchmark for community detection with outliers (ABCD+o)","authors":"Bogumil Kami'nski, P. Prałat, F. Théberge","doi":"10.1007/s41109-023-00552-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-023-00552-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37010,"journal":{"name":"Applied Network Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45947713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the importance of existing relationships for co-offending: a temporal network analysis in Bogotá, Colombia (2005–2018)","authors":"Alberto Nieto, Toby P Davies, H. Borrion","doi":"10.1007/s41109-023-00531-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-023-00531-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37010,"journal":{"name":"Applied Network Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42405294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Convergence properties of optimal transport-based temporal hypergraphs","authors":"Diego Baptista, C. D. Bacco","doi":"10.1007/s41109-022-00529-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-022-00529-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37010,"journal":{"name":"Applied Network Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48784468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Centrality-based lane interventions in road networks for improved level of service: the case of downtown Boise, Idaho","authors":"Md Ashraf Ahmed, H. M. I. Kays, A. M. Sadri","doi":"10.1007/s41109-023-00532-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-023-00532-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37010,"journal":{"name":"Applied Network Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41339769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A combined synchronization index for evaluating collective action social media.","authors":"Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M Carley","doi":"10.1007/s41109-022-00526-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-022-00526-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social media has provided a citizen voice, giving rise to grassroots collective action, where users deploy a concerted effort to disseminate online narratives and even carry out offline protests. Sometimes these collective action are aided by inorganic synchronization, which arise from bot actors. It is thus important to identify the synchronicity of emerging discourse on social media and the indications of organic/inorganic activity within the conversations. This provides a way of profiling an event for possibility of offline protests and violence. In this study, we build on past definitions of synchronous activity on social media- simultaneous user action-and develop a Combined Synchronization Index (CSI) which adopts a hierarchical approach in measuring user synchronicity. We apply this index on six political and social activism events on Twitter and analyzed three action types: synchronicity by hashtag, URL and @mentions.The CSI provides an overall quantification of synchronization across all action types within an event, which allows ranking of a spectrum of synchronicity across the six events. Human users have higher synchronous scores than bot users in most events; and bots and humans exhibits the most synchronized activities across all events as compared to other pairs (i.e., bot-bot and human-human). We further rely on the harmony and dissonance of CSI-Network scores with network centrality metrics to observe the presence of organic/inorganic synchronization. We hope this work aids in investigating synchronized action within social media in a collective manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":37010,"journal":{"name":"Applied Network Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9809510/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10509545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Applied Network SciencePub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1007/s41109-023-00596-x
Christoph Gote, Giona Casiraghi, Frank Schweitzer, Ingo Scholtes
{"title":"Predicting variable-length paths in networked systems using multi-order generative models.","authors":"Christoph Gote, Giona Casiraghi, Frank Schweitzer, Ingo Scholtes","doi":"10.1007/s41109-023-00596-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41109-023-00596-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Apart from nodes and links, for many networked systems, we have access to data on paths, i.e., collections of temporally ordered variable-length node sequences that are constrained by the system's topology. Understanding the patterns in such data is key to advancing our understanding of the structure and dynamics of complex systems. Moreover, the ability to accurately model and predict paths is important for engineered systems, e.g., to optimise supply chains or provide smart mobility services. Here, we introduce MOGen, a generative modelling framework that enables both next-element and out-of-sample prediction in paths with high accuracy and consistency. It features a model selection approach that automatically determines the optimal model directly from data, effectively making MOGen parameter-free. Using empirical data, we show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art sequence modelling techniques. We further introduce a mathematical formalism that links higher-order models of paths to transition matrices of random walks in multi-layer networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":37010,"journal":{"name":"Applied Network Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"68"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10516819/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41151411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Applied Network SciencePub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1007/s41109-023-00595-y
Marzena Fügenschuh, Feng Fu
{"title":"Overcoming vaccine hesitancy by multiplex social network targeting: an analysis of targeting algorithms and implications.","authors":"Marzena Fügenschuh, Feng Fu","doi":"10.1007/s41109-023-00595-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41109-023-00595-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Incorporating social factors into disease prevention and control efforts is an important undertaking of behavioral epidemiology. The interplay between disease transmission and human health behaviors, such as vaccine uptake, results in complex dynamics of biological and social contagions. Maximizing intervention adoptions via network-based targeting algorithms by harnessing the power of social contagion for behavior and attitude changes largely remains a challenge. Here we address this issue by considering a multiplex network setting. Individuals are situated on two layers of networks: the disease transmission network layer and the peer influence network layer. The disease spreads through direct close contacts while vaccine views and uptake behaviors spread interpersonally within a potentially virtual network. The results of our comprehensive simulations show that network-based targeting with pro-vaccine supporters as initial seeds significantly influences vaccine adoption rates and reduces the extent of an epidemic outbreak. Network targeting interventions are much more effective by selecting individuals with a central position in the opinion network as compared to those grouped in a community or connected professionally. Our findings provide insight into network-based interventions to increase vaccine confidence and demand during an ongoing epidemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":37010,"journal":{"name":"Applied Network Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"67"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10514145/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41151470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}