Professor Vito Latora
Professor of Applied Mathematics. Chair of Complex Systems.
Email: v.latora@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5199Room Number: Mathematical Sciences Building, Room: MB-311Website: http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~latora
Profile
Vito Latora is Professor of Applied Mathematics, Chair of Complex Systems and Head of the Complex Systems and Networks Unit at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Queen Mary University of London. He is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science, and External Faculty of the Complexity Hub Vienna.
He has expertise in complex systems, with a particular focus on the analysis and modelling of complex networks. His current interests include time-varying and multiplex networks, and their applications to socio-economic systems and to the human brain.
Vito’s research has been supported by funding bodies including the EPSRC and the European Commission. In particular, he has been the scientific director of the EC-project LASAGNE (2012-15) involving 7 different European partners on the development of a novel mathematical framework for analysing and modelling dynamic multilayer networks.
Research
Research Interests:
Complex systems. Structure and dynamics of complex networks. Multiplex networks. Temporal networks. Social networks. Quantitative urbanism. Brain networks. The science of success.
Publications
Vito has co co-authored various edited volumes and more than 200 scientific publications including papers in Physical Review Letters, PNAS, Science, Nature Communications, Nature Human Behaviour, Scientific Reports, and the textbook “Complex Networks: Principles, Methods and Applications”, Cambridge University Press (2017).
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(2021). Stability of Synchronization in Simplicial Complexes Nature Communications.
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(2021). Predicting Urban Innovation from the Workforce Mobility Network in US Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
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(2021). Evolutionary dynamics of higher-order interactions in social networks Nature Human Behaviour.
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(2020). Interacting Discovery Processes on Complex Networks Physical Review Letters.
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(2020). Travel time analysis in the Chinese coupled aviation and high-speed rail network Chaos, Solitons and Fractals.
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(2020). Networks beyond pairwise interactions: Structure and dynamics Physics Reports.
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(2020). The evolution of knowledge within and across fields in modern physics Scientific Reports.
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(2020). Nonlinear walkers and efficient exploration of congested networks Physical Review Research.
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(2020). Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution Science Advances.
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(publicationYear). Multi-layer modelling of adoption dynamics in energy demand management Chaos: an interdisciplinary journal of nonlinear science.
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(2019). Quantifying and predicting success in show business Nature Communications.
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(2019). Simplicial models of social contagion Nature Communications.
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(2019). Effects of memory on spreading processes in non-Markovian temporal networks New Journal of Physics.
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(2019). Benchmarking the performance of controllers for power grid transient stability Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks.
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(2019). Creative connectivity project – A network based approach to understand correlations between interdisciplinary group dynamics and creative performance Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019.
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(2018). Dynamically induced cascading failures in power grids Nature Communications.
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(2018). Author Correction: Dynamically induced cascading failures in power grids. Nat Commun.
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(2018). Pareto optimality in multilayer network growth Physical Review Letters.
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(2018). Multiplex core-periphery organization of the human connectome Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
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(2018). Distributed control of synchronization of a group of network nodes IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
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(2018). Emergent explosive synchronization in adaptive complex networks. Phys Rev E.
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(2018). A dynamic approach merging network theory and credit risk techniques to assess systemic risk in financial networks Scientific Reports.
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(2018). Mobility and congestion in dynamical multilayer networks with finite storage capacity Physical Review Letters.
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(2018). Network dynamics of innovation processes Physical Review Letters.
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(2017). Layered social influence promotes multiculturality in the Axelrod model Scientific Reports.
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(2017). The Multiplex Dependency Structure of Financial Markets COMPLEXITY.
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(2017). The Multiplex Dependency Structure of Financial Markets. Complexity.
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(2017). An active-radio-frequency-identification system capable of identifying co-locations and social-structure: Validation with a wild free-ranging animal Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
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(2017). Determinants of public cooperation in multiplex networks New Journal of Physics.
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(2017). Multilayer motif analysis of brain networks Chaos.
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(2017). Collective phenomena emerging from the interactions between dynamical processes in multiplex networks Physical Review Letters.
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(2017). The new challenges of multiplex networks: Measures and models European Physical Journal: Special Topics.
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(2017). Characterisation of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture Nature Human Behaviour.
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(2017). A Topological Criterion for Filtering Information in Complex Brain Networks PLOS Computational Biology.
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(2016). Interplay between consensus and coherence in a model of interacting opinions Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena.
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(2016). Correction: Spatio-temporal analysis of micro economic activities in rome reveals patterns of mixed-use urban evolution PLoS ONE.
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(2016). Efficient exploration of multiplex networks New Journal of Physics.
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(2016). Homophily and missing links in citation networks EPJ Data Science.
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(2016). Spatio-temporal analysis of micro economic activities in Rome reveals patterns of mixed-use urban evolution PLoS ONE.
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(2016). Irreducibility of multilayer network dynamics: The case of the voter model New Journal of Physics.
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(2016). Emergence of Multiplex Communities in Collaboration Networks. PLoS One.
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(2015). Anatomy of funded research in science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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(2015). Network structure of multivariate time series Scientific Reports.
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(2015). Measuring and modeling correlations in multiplex networks Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2015). Hybrid recommendation methods in complex networks Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2015). Structural reducibility of multilayer networks Nature Communications.
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(2015). Catastrophe resilience related to urban network shape: Preliminary analysis COMPDYN 2015 - 5th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.
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(2015). Funding shapes the anatomy of scientific research. CoRR.
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(2014). Evolutionary dynamics of time-resolved social interactions Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2014). Erratum: Node Accessibility in Cortical Networks During Motor Tasks [Neuroinformatics 11, (2013) 355-366, DOI 10.1007/s12021-013-9185-2] Neuroinformatics.
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(2014). Nonlinear growth and condensation in multiplex networks Physical Review E.
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(2014). Assessment of Urban Ecosystem Resilience through Hybrid Social–Physical Complex Networks Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering.
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(2014). Structural measures for multiplex networks Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2014). Characteristic times of biased random walks on complex networks Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2014). Non-parametric resampling of random walks for spectral network clustering Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2014). Assessment of Urban Ecosystem Resilience through Hybrid Social-Physical Complex Networks Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering.
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(2013). Urban network resilience analysis in case of earthquakes Safety, Reliability, Risk and Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, ICOSSAR 2013.
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(2013). Phase transition in the economically modeled growth of a cellular nervous system Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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(2013). Remote synchronization reveals network symmetries and functional modules Physical Review Letters.
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(2013). Co-evolution of networks and quantum dynamics: a generalization of preferential attachment Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
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(2013). Applications of temporal graph metrics to real-world networks Understanding Complex Systems.
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(2013). Graph metrics for temporal networks Understanding Complex Systems.
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(2013). Node Accessibility in Cortical Networks During Motor Tasks. Neuroinformatics.
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(2013). Urban street networks, a comparative analysis of ten European cities Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design.
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(2012). Motion-induced synchronization in metapopulations of mobile agents Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2012). Understanding mobility in a social petri dish Scientific Reports.
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(2012). Elementary processes governing the evolution of road networks Scientific Reports.
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(2012). Adaptive Growing Networks coevolving with the Spread of Diseases. Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos.
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(2012). Effects of Traffic Properties and Degree Heterogeneity in Flow fluctuations on Complex Networks. Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos.
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(2012). Social cohesion, structural holes, and a tale of two measures CoRR.
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(2011). Emerging meso- and macroscales from synchronization of adaptive networks. Phys Rev Lett.
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(2011). Street Centrality and the Location of Economic Activities in Barcelona Urban Studies.
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(2011). Exploiting temporal complex network metrics in mobile malware containment 2011 IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2011 - Digital Proceedings.
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(2011). Flow graphs: Interweaving dynamics and structure Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2011). Emergence of structural patterns out of synchronization in networks with competitive interactions. Sci Rep.
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(2011). Exploiting temporal complex network metrics in mobile malware containment. WOWMOM.
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(2011). NextPlace: A Spatio-temporal Prediction Framework for Pervasive Systems. Pervasive.
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(2010). Defecting or not defecting: How to "read" human behavior during cooperative games by EEG measurements PLoS ONE.
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(2010). Networks in Urban Design. Six years of research in multiple centrality assessment journal.
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(2010). Networks of motifs from sequences of symbols Physical Review Letters.
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(2010). Fast detection of nonlinearity and nonstationarity in short and noisy time series EPL.
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(2010). Maximal-entropy random walks in complex networks with limited information Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2010). Impact of network structure on a model of diffusion and competitive interaction Europhysics Letters: a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics.
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(2010). Dynamical organization towards consensus in the Axelrod model on complex networks Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2010). Small-world behavior in time-varying graphs Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2010). Functional modularity of background activities in normal and epileptic brain networks Physical Review Letters.
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(2010). Analysing information flows and key mediators through temporal centrality metrics. SNS.
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(2010). Characterising temporal distance and reachability in mobile and online social networks. Comput. Commun. Rev..
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(2010). Complex networks: New trends for the analysis of brain connectivity International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.
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(2010). Effects of Motion on Epidemic Spreading. Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos.
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(2010). On Nonstationarity of Human Contact Networks. ICDCS Workshops.
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(2010). Traffic optimization in transport networks based on local routing European Physical Journal B.
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(2009). The Ultimatum Game in complex networks Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
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(2009). Impact of altruism on opportunistic communications 2009 1st International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2009.
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(2009). Selfishness, altruism and message spreading in mobile social networks Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM.
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(2009). Effects of mobility in a population of prisoner's dilemma players Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2009). Street centrality and densities of retail and services in Bologna, Italy Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design.
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(2009). CLUSTER STRUCTURE OF FUNCTIONAL NETWORKS ESTIMATED FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION EEG DATA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIFURCATION AND CHAOS.
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(2009). Cluster structure of functional networks estimated from high-resolution EGG data International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.
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(2009). Structural and dynamical properties of cellular and regulatory networks journal.
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(2009). Temporal distance metrics for social network analysis. WOSN.
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(2008). Entropy rate of diffusion processes on complex networks Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2008). Epcast: Controlled dissemination in human-based wireless networks using epidemic spreading models Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).
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(2008). Communities recognition in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem by dynamical clustering algorithms based on different oscillators systems European Physical Journal B.
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(2008). Enhancement of cooperation in highly clustered scale-free networks Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2008). Complex networks: From biology to information technology Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.
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(2008). Complex networks: from biology to information technology - Preface JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL.
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(2008). Persistent patterns of interconnection in time-varying cortical networks estimated from high-resolution EEG recordings in humans during a simple motor act Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.
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(2008). Scaling breakdown in flow fluctuations on complex networks Physical Review Letters.
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(2008). Multiple centrality assessment in Parma: A network analysis of paths and open spaces Urban Design International.
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(2008). Spreading of sexually transmitted diseases in heterosexual populations Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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(2008). Community structure of cortical networks in spinal cord injured patients Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology".
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(2008). Community structure of cortical networks in spinal cord injured patients. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc.
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(2007). Multiple centrality assessment: Mapping centrality in networks of urban spaces journal.
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(2007). Modules identification by a dynamical clustering algorithm based on chaotic Rössler oscillators AIP Conference Proceedings.
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(2007). Self-organized criticality and earthquakes AIP Conference Proceedings.
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(2007). Opinion formation models based on game theory International Journal of Modern Physics C.
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(2007). A measure of centrality based on network efficiency New Journal of Physics.
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(2007). Analysis of self-organized criticality in the Olami-Feder-Christensen model and in real earthquakes Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2007). Detecting complex network modularity by dynamical clustering Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2007). Growing Hierarchical Scale-Free Networks by Means of Nonhierarchical Processes. Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos.
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(2006). A topological analysis of scientific coauthorship networks Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2006). Opinion dynamics and synchronization in a network of scientific collaborations Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2006). Effective spin-glass Hamiltonian for the anomalous dynamics of the HMF model Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2006). The network analysis of urban streets: A dual approach Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2006). Multifractal analysis of Mount St. Helens seismicity as a tool for identifying eruptive activity Fractals.
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(2006). Structural properties of planar graphs of urban street patterns Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2006). Network of sexual contacts and sexually transmitted HIV infection in Burkina Faso. J Med Virol.
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(2006). Centrality measures in spatial networks of urban streets Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2006). Compromise and synchronization in opinion dynamics European Physical Journal B.
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(2006). Olami-Feder-Christensen model on different networks European Physical Journal B.
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(2006). Complex networks: Structure and dynamics Physics Reports.
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(2006). The network analysis of urban streets: A primal approach Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design.
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(2005). Vector opinion dynamics in a bounded confidence consensus model International Journal of Modern Physics C.
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(2005). METASTABILITY AND ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR IN THE HMF MODEL: CONNECTIONS TO NONEXTENSIVE THERMODYNAMICS AND GLASSY DYNAMICS journal.
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(2005). THE OLAMI-FEDER-CHRISTENSEN MODEL ON A SMALL-WORLD TOPOLOGY journal.
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(2005). Modeling cascading failures in the North American power grid European Physical Journal B.
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(2005). Locating critical lines in high-voltage electrical power grids Fluctuation and Noise Letters.
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(2005). Quantifying the relevance of different mediators in the human immune cell network Bioinformatics.
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(2005). Changing Opinions in a Changing World: a New Perspective in Sociophysics International Journal of Modern Physics C: Physics and Computers.
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(2005). Vulnerability and protection of infrastructure networks Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2005). Vulnerability and protection of infrastructure networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2004). Error and attack tolerance of complex networks Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2004). Glassy dynamics in the HMF model Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2004). A topological analysis of the Italian electric power grid Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2004). Dynamical anomalies and the role of initial conditions in the HMF model Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2004). Non-Poisson distribution of the time distances between two consecutive clusters of earthquakes Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2004). Metastable states, anomalous distributions and correlations in the HMF model Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena.
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(2004). Nonextensive Effects in Hamiltonian Systems journal.
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(2004). Detection of invisible and crucial events: From seismic fluctuations to the war against terrorism Chaos, Solitons and Fractals.
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(2004). How the science of complex networks can help developing strategies against terrorism Chaos, Solitons and Fractals.
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(2004). Comment on "power-law time distribution of large earthquakes" [3] (multiple letters) Physical Review Letters.
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(2004). Dynamics and thermodynamics of a model with long-range interactions Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics.
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(2004). Glassy phase in the Hamiltonian mean-field model Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics.
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(2004). Method to find community structures based on information centrality Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics.
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(2004). Model for cascading failures in complex networks Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics.
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(2003). Economic small-world behavior in weighted networks European Physical Journal B.
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(2003). COMPLEX SYSTEMS: ANALYSIS AND MODELS OF REAL-WORLD NETWORKS journal.
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(2003). Efficiency of scale-free networks: Error and attack tolerance Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2003). Power-Law Time Distribution of Large Earthquakes Physical Review Letters.
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(2002). Nonextensivity: From Low-Dimensional Maps to Hamiltonian Systems journal.
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(2002). The Hamiltonian Mean Field Model: From Dynamics to Statistical Mechanics and Back journal.
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(2002). Is the Boston subway a small-world network? Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2002). Lévy scaling: the diffusion entropy analysis applied to DNA sequences Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.
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(2002). Lévy statistics in coding and non-coding nucleotide sequences Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics.
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(2002). Dynamical quasi-stationary states in a system with long-range forces Chaos, Solitons and Fractals.
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(2002). Fingerprints of nonextensive thermodynamics in a long-range Hamiltonian system Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2002). Time evolution of thermodynamic entropy for conservative and dissipative chaotic maps Chaos, Solitons and Fractals.
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(2001). Efficient behavior of small-world networks Physical Review Letters.
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(2001). Identifying and discriminating seismic patterns leading flank eruptions at Mt. Etna Volcano during 1981-1996 Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.
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(2001). Microscopic dynamics of a phase transition: Equilibrium vs out-of-equilibrium regime Nuclear Physics A.
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(2001). Non-Gaussian equilibrium in a long-range Hamiltonian system Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics.
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(2000). Harmony in the small-world Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2000). The rate of entropy increase at the edge of chaos Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics.
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(2000). Chaotic dynamics and superdiffusion in a Hamiltonian system with many degrees of freedom Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2000). Chaos in the thermodynamic limit Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement.
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(1999). Chaotic behavior in a Z
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(1999). Identifying seismicity patterns leading flank eruptions at Mt. Etna Volcano during 1981-1996 Geophysical Research Letters.
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(1999). Chaos and statistical mechanics in the Hamiltonian mean field model Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena.
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(1999). Kolmogorov-sinai entropy rate versus physical entropy Physical Review Letters.
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(1999). Superdiffusion and out-of-equilibrium chaotic dynamics with many degrees of freedoms Physical Review Letters.
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(1998). A fractal approach to the temporal distribution of microseismicity at the low eastern flank of Mt. Etna during 1989-1994 Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.
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(1998). Time correlation analysis of the microseismicity of the low eastern flank of Mt. Etna volcano (Italy) Pure and Applied Geophysics.
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(1998). Lyapunov instability and finite size effects in a system with long-range forces Physical Review Letters.
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(1997). Novel Scaling of Multiplicity Distributions in Sequential-Fragmentation and Percolation Processes Physical Review Letters.
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(1996). Circumstantial evidence for critical behavior in peripheral A u +A u collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon Physical Review Letters.
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(1996). Second order phase transitions: From infinite to finite systems Nuclear Physics A.
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(1996). Searching for the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition in Au+Au collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics.
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(1995). Critical evolution of a finite system. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys.
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(1995). Intermittency in the Fisher's droplet model Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei.
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(1995). Neck instabilities in deep inelastic collisions at medium energies Nuclear Physics, Section A.
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(1995). Universal behavior of Lyapunov exponents in unstable systems Physical Review Letters.
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(1994). Sensitivity to the impact parameter of the multiparticle decay at intermediate energy. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys.
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(1994). Dynamics of instabilities and intermittency. Phys Rev Lett.
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(1994). Detecting nuclear multifragmention Nuclear Physics, Section A.
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(1994). Testing the Mean-Field Approximation in the Spinodal Region journal.
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(1993). Searching for instabilities in nuclear dynamics Physics Letters B.
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(1993). Sharp transitions in nuclear dynamics: Limits to collectivity and stability Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics.
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(1992). Fragmentation in medium energy heavy-ion collisions Nuclear Physics, Section A.