Advances in Network Science: 12th International Conference and School, NetSci-X 2016, Wroclaw, Poland, January 11-13, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 9564)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference and School of Network Science, NetSci-X 2016, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in January 2016. The 12 full and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers deal with the study of network models in domains ranging from biology and physics to computer science, from financial markets to cultural integration, and from social media to infectious diseases. Quad census computation -- Posting topics unequal to reading topics -- Going beyond GDP to nowcast Well-Being -- Modelling trend progression through an extension of the polya urn process. . edited by Adam Wierzbicki, Ulrik Brandes, Frank Schweitzer, Dino Pedreschi. Front Matter....Pages I-XII Quad Census Computation: Simple, Efficient, and Orbit-Aware....Pages 1-13 Posting Topics \(\ne \) Reading Topics: On Discovering Posting and Reading Topics in Social Media....Pages 14-28 Going Beyond GDP to Nowcast Well-Being Using Retail Market Data....Pages 29-42 To Trust or Not to Trust Lurkers?: Evaluation of Lurking and Trustworthiness in Ranking Problems....Pages 43-56 Modelling Trend Progression Through an Extension of the Polya Urn Process....Pages 57-67 Exploiting Content Quality and Question Difficulty in CQA Reputation Systems....Pages 68-81 Analysis of Co-authorship Ego Networks....Pages 82-96 Studying the Role of Diversity in Open Collaboration Network: Experiments on Wikipedia....Pages 97-110 On the Evaluation Potential of Quality Functions in Community Detection for Different Contexts....Pages 111-125 Predicting User Participation in Social Media....Pages 126-135 Computing Information Integration in Brain Networks....Pages 136-146 Embracing n-ary Relations in Network Science....Pages 147-160 Studying Successful Public Plazas in the City of Murcia (Spain) Using a Ranking Nodes Algorithm and Foursquare Data....Pages 161-168 A Comparison of Fundamental Network Formation Principles Between Offline and Online Friends on Twitter....Pages 169-177 Social Ties as Predictors of Economic Development....Pages 178-185 Large Scale Graph Representations for Subgraph Census....Pages 186-194 An Exploration of Fetish Social Networks and Communities....Pages 195-204 Synergy Landscapes: A Multilayer Network for Collaboration in Biological Research....Pages 205-212 Back Matter....Pages 213-213