Stefano Battiston & Francesco De Pellegrini 
Proceedings of ECCS 2014 [PDF ebook] 
European Conference on Complex Systems

This work provides a careful selection of extended contributions presented at the 2014 ECCS conference and its satellite meetings, reflecting the scope and diversity of both fundamental and applied research areas in the field. The ECCS meeting, held under the patronage of the Complex Systems Society, is an annual event that has become the leading European conference devoted to complexity science. It presents cutting-edge research and offers a unique opportunity to study novel scientific approaches in a multitude of application areas. 


ECCS’14, the eleventh annual event, took place in Lucca, Italy. It gathered some 650 scholars representing a wide range of topics related to complex systems research, with emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches. The editors are leading specialists in the area.


The book is of great interest to scientists, researchers and graduate students in complexity, complex systems and networks.

Table des matières

Preface.- Detection of Non-Self-Correcting Nature of Information Cascade.- Fitting Planar Proximity Graphs on Real Street Networks. – Qualitative Methods for the Exploration of Complexity in Human Social Systems: Applications in Family Psychology.- Tangible Networks: A Toolkit for Exploring Network Science.- The Geometric Origins of Complex Cities.- Revealing the Relation Between Structure of Chloroplast Genomes and Host Taxonomy.- Complex Synchronization Patterns in the Human Connectome Network.- Structure of a Media Co-Occurrence Network.- Spatial Effects of Delay-induced Stochastic Oscillations in a Multi-Scale Cellular System.- An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Biological Invasion by Macroalgae in European Coastal Environments.- Characterisation of the Idiotypic Immune Network through Persistent Entropy.- Interests Propagation in Computer Science Research Community.- Nonparametric Estimation of the Preferential Attachment Function in Complex Networks: Evidence of Deviations from Log Linearity.- N-Gram Events for Analysis of Financial Time Series.- Human Mobility and the Dynamics of Measles in Large Geographical Areas.- Does Training Lead to the Formation of Modules in Threshold Networks?.- Understanding Financial News with Multi-layer Network Analysis.- Channel-Specic Daily Patterns in Mobile Phone Communication.- Investigating the Phonetic Organisation of the English Language via Phonological Networks, Percolation and Markov Models.- An Agent-Based Model for Agricultural Supply Chains: the Case of Uganda.- Chimera States in Neuronal Systems of Excitability type-I .- Multiobjective Optimization and Phase Transitions.- Power Laws as Statistical Mixtures.- A Network-Based Analysis of the European Emission Market.- Dynamics of Commodity Price Fluctuations in Japan.- Understanding the Diffusion of You Tube Videos.- Free Energy Rate Density and Self-organization in Complex Systems.