In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018, vol. 491, p. 898–911
Learning English requires a considerable effort, but the way that vocabulary is introduced in textbooks is not optimized for learning efficiency. With the increasing population of English learners, learning process optimization will have significant impact and improvement towards English learning and teaching. The recent developments of big data analysis and complex network science provide...
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In: Physics Reports, 2017, vol. 689, p. 1–54
Complex networks have emerged as a simple yet powerful framework to represent and analyze a wide range of complex systems. The problem of ranking the nodes and the edges in complex networks is critical for a broad range of real-world problems because it affects how we access online information and products, how success and talent are evaluated in human activities, and how scarce resources are...
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In: Physics Letters A, 2017, vol. 381, no. 48, p. 3972–3977
In this paper, we proposed a dynamical approach to assess vertices centrality according to the synchronization process of the Kuramoto model. In our approach, the vertices dynamical centrality is calculated based on the Difference of vertices Synchronization Abilities (DSA), which are different from traditional centrality measurements that are related to the topological properties. Through...
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In: AIP Advances, 2016, vol. 6, no. 9, p. 095313
Aqueous liquids have a wide range of applications in many fields. Basic physical properties like the density and the viscosity have great impacts on the functionalities of a given ionic liquid. For the millions kinds of existing liquids, only a few have been systematically measured with the density and the viscosity using traditional methods. However, these methods are limited to measure the...
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In: Journal of Informetrics, 2016, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 1207–1223
Citations between scientific papers and related bibliometric indices, such as the h- index for authors and the impact factor for journals, are being increasingly used – often in controversial ways – as quantitative tools for research evaluation. Yet, a fundamental research question remains still open: to which extent do quantitative metrics capture the significance of scientific works? We...
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In: Scientific Reports, 2016, vol. 6, p. 34218
Understanding the behavior of users in online systems is of essential importance for sociology, system design, e-commerce, and beyond. Most existing models assume that individuals in diverse systems, ranging from social networks to e-commerce platforms, tend to what is already popular. We propose a statistical time-aware framework to identify the users who differ from the usual behavior by...
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In: Physics Letters A, 2016, vol. 380, no. 34, p. 2608–2614
There could exist a simple general mechanism lurking beneath collaborative filtering and interdisciplinary physics approaches which have been successfully applied to online E-commerce platforms. Motivated by this idea, we propose a generalized model employing the dynamics of the random walk in the bipartite networks. Taking into account the degree information, the proposed generalized model...
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In: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2016, vol. 26, no. 6, p. 63108
Accurate identification of effective epidemic threshold is essential for understanding epidemic dynamics on complex networks. In this paper, we systematically study how the recovery rate affects the susceptible-infected-removed spreading dynamics on complex networks, where synchronous and asynchronous updating processes are taken into account. We derive the theoretical effective epidemic...
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In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 460, p. 254–269
Numerical analysis of data from international trade and ecological networks has shown that the non-linear fitness–complexity metric is the best candidate to rank nodes by importance in bipartite networks that exhibit a nested structure. Despite its relevance for real networks, the mathematical properties of the metric and its variants remain largely unexplored. Here, we perform an analytic...
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In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 444, p. 397–402
Bipartite matching problems emerge in many human social phenomena. In this paper, we study the ground state of the Gale–Shapley model, which is the most popular bipartite matching model. We apply the Kuhn–Munkres algorithm to compute the numerical ground state of the model. For the first time, we obtain the number of blocking pairs which is a measure of the system instability. We also show...
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