Complexity Thoughts

Complexity Thoughts

Complexity Thoughts: Issue #3

Unraveling complexity: building knowledge, one paper at a time

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Manlio De Domenico, Ph.D.
Dec 02, 2022
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Network and Complexity Foundations

Why are there six degrees of separation in a social network? | arXiv

We roughly observe six degrees of separation in our social networks. Why? This paper proposes a model based on simple mechanistic rules to explain the origin of the scaling characterizing small-world networks.

Message passing methods on complex networks …

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