… Unfortunately, the Watts-Strogatz model suffers from some serious problems that render it …
In a remarkable piece of analysis, Kleinberg proved that while models like that of Watts & …

… Direct transfer between groups would remove most or all of them (Isbell et al. 1993; Watts
1996). … hamadryas are conservatively counted as one taxon d References: 1. Kappeler 1993; …

This article reviews recent research into alternative systems of food provision. It considers,
first, what the concept of ‘alter nativeness’ might mean, based on recent discussions in …

… In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, …
and social choices of entire societies, Watts weaves together a network of discoveries across an …

Social networks have the surprising property of being “searchable”: Ordinary people are
capable of directing messages through their network of acquaintances to reach a specific but …

The origin of large but rare cascades that are triggered by small initial shocks is a phenomenon
that manifests itself as diversely as cultural fads, collective action, the diffusion of norms …

… For instance, it is obvious (even without Linial's theorem) that a d-lattice of any size will
always have an embedding dimension of d, whereas for a random graph, we are only …

Networks of coupled dynamical systems have been used to model biological oscillators 1, 2,
3, 4, Josephson junction arrays 5, 6, excitable media 7, neural networks 8, 9, 10, spatial …

… L'Herrou 1996), political science (Kuran 1991), marketing (Goldenberg, Libai, and Muller
2001; Mayzlin 2002), and mathematical physics (Borghesi and Bouchaud forthcoming; Watts …

The rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against
misinformation in the internet age. Concern over the problem is global. However, much …