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Computational network biology: Data, models, and applications

Liu, Chuang ; Ma, Yifang ; Zhao, Jing ; Nussinov, Ruth ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng ; Cheng, Feixiong ; Zhang, Zi-Ke

In: Physics Reports, 2020, vol. 846, p. 1–66

Biological entities are involved in intricate and complex interactions, in which uncovering the biological information from the network concepts are of great significance. Benefiting from the advances of network science and high-throughput biomedical technologies, studying the biological systems from network biology has attracted much attention in recent years, and networks have long been...

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Predicting financial extremes based on weighted visual graph of major stock indices

Chen, Dong-Rui ; Liu, Chuang ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng ; Zhang, Zi-Ke

In: Complexity, 2019, vol. 2019, p. 1–17

Understanding and predicting extreme turning points in the financial market, such as financial bubbles and crashes, has attracted much attention in recent years. Experimental observations of the superexponential increase of prices before crashes indicate the predictability of financial extremes. In this study, we aim to forecast extreme events in the stock market using 19-year time-series...

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Website-oriented recommendation based on heat spreading and tag-aware collaborative filtering

Zhang, Zi-Ke ; Yu, Lu ; Fang, Kuan ; You, Zhi-Qiang ; Liu, Chuang ; Liu, Hao ; Yan, Xiao-Yong

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 399, p. 82–88

Recently, Recommender Systems has been widely applied in helping users find potentially interesting items from the era of big data. However, most of researches on this topic have focused on estimating the direct relationships between users and items, neglecting other available information. In this paper, we discuss about mining webs with information extracted from search and browser logs of...

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An evolving model of online bipartite networks

Zhang, Chu-Xu ; Zhang, Zi-Ke ; Liu, Chuang

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013, vol. 392, no. 23, p. 6100–6106

Understanding the structure and evolution of online bipartite networks is a significant task since they play a crucial role in various e-commerce services nowadays. Recently, various attempts have been tried to propose different models, resulting in either power-law or exponential degree distributions. However, many empirical results show that the user degree distribution actually follows a...

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Hybrid recommendation algorithm based on two roles of social tags

Zhang, Zi-Ke ; Liu, Chuang

In: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2012, vol. 22, no. 07, p. 1250166

The past few years have witnessed the great success of a new family of paradigms, social tagging networks, which allows users to freely associate social tags to items and efficiently manage them. Thus it provides us a promising way to effectively find useful and interesting information. In this paper, we consider two typical roles of social tags: (i) an accessorial tool helping users organize...

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Self-organization in social tagging systems

Liu, Chuang ; Yeung, Chi Ho ; Zhang, Zi-Ke

In: Physical Review E - Statistical Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2011, vol. 83, no. 6, p. 06604

Individuals often imitate each other to fall into the typical group, leading to a self-organized state of typical behaviors in a community. In this paper, we model self-organization in social tagging systems and illustrate the underlying interaction and dynamics. Specifically, we introduce a model in which individuals adjust their own tagging tendency to imitate the average tagging tendency. We...