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Complex Networks 2019 Conference Special Collection: The 8th Conference on Complex Networks & their Applications

Published October 27, 2020

This Special Collection highlights cutting-edge research in the field of network science, where scientists, researchers, students and practitioners present a unique update on the latest advances in theory, together with a wealth of applications. The Collection presents peer-reviewed articles borne from the 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019), which was held in Lisbon on December 10–12, 2019.

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Complex Networks 2019 Research

Complex Networks 2019 Research

PLOS ONE The sustainability and the survivability of Kyoto’s traditional craft industry revealed from supplier-customer network
November 9, 2020 Daisuke Sato, Yuichi Ikeda, Shuichi Kawai, Maxmilian Schich

Due to the changes in consumer demand and generational transformations, Kyoto’s traditional craft industry has suffered substantial…
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Fig 1. Voronoi cells. by Campos and Finke, CC BY 4.0

PLOS ONE Measuring event concentration in empirical networks with different types of degree distributions
December 2, 2020 Juan Campos, Jorge Finke

Measuring event concentration often involves identifying clusters of events at various scales of resolution and across different regions.…
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Fig 1. Proportion of “noisy” users in transaction networks. by Aspembitova et al., CC BY 4.0

PLOS ONE Behavioral structure of users in cryptocurrency market
January 12, 2021 Ayana T. Aspembitova, Ling Feng, Lock Yue Chew

Human behavior as they engaged in financial activities is intimately connected to the observed market dynamics. Despite many existing…
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Fig 4. Geographic location and vulnerability of U.S. airports. by Ceria et al., CC BY 4.0

PLOS ONE Modeling airport congestion contagion by heterogeneous SIS epidemic spreading on airline networks
January 22, 2021 Alberto Ceria, Klemens Köstler, Rommy Gobardhan, Huijuan Wang

In this work, we explore the possibility of using a heterogeneous Susceptible- Infected-Susceptible SIS spreading process on an airline…
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Fig 1. The simulation results of the robustness of SF, SW and ER networks at different θ, δ and f under DL when <k> = 4. by Hao et al., CC BY 4.0

PLOS ONE Modelling cascading failures in networks with the harmonic closeness
January 25, 2021 Yucheng Hao, Limin Jia, Yanhui Wang, Zhichao He

Many studies on cascading failures adopt the degree or the betweenness of a node to define its load. From a novel perspective, we propose…
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10.1371/journal.pone.0239669

PLOS ONE Testing “efficient supply chain propositions” using topological characterization of the global supply chain networkrn
October 1, 2020 Abhijit Chakraborty, Yuichi Ikeda
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10.1371/journal.pone.0239132

PLOS ONE Herding or wisdom of the crowd? Controlling efficiency in a partially rational financial market
September 11, 2020 Fabio Della Rossa, Lorenzo Giannini, Pietro DeLellis
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10.1371/journal.pone.0238626

PLOS ONE Do economic shocks spread randomly?: A topological study of the global contagion network
September 4, 2020 Tamás Sebestyén, Zita Iloskics
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10.1371/journal.pone.0237862

PLOS ONE The power of corporate control in the global ownership network
August 27, 2020 Takayuki Mizuno, Shohei Doi, Shuhei Kurizaki
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10.1371/journal.pone.0237861

PLOS ONE Hate speech detection and racial bias mitigation in social media based on BERT model
August 27, 2020 Marzieh Mozafari, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noël Crespi
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10.1371/journal.pone.0238017

PLOS ONE Economic complexity of prefectures in Japan
August 27, 2020 Abhijit Chakraborty, Hiroyasu Inoue, Yoshi Fujiwara
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10.1371/journal.pone.0231294

PLOS ONE Eigenvector alignment: Assessing functional network changes in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease
August 27, 2020 Ruaridh A. Clark, Niia Nikolova, William J. McGeown, Malcolm Macdonald
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10.1371/journal.pone.0236476

PLOS ONE Disrupting resilient criminal networks through data analysis: The case of Sicilian Mafia
August 5, 2020 Lucia Cavallaro, Annamaria Ficara, Pasquale De Meo, Giacomo Fiumara, Salvatore Catanese, Ovidiu Bagdasar, Wei Song, Antonio Liotta