Complex Networks (PIs: Alex Vespignani, Sandro Flammini)
| Epidemic Modeling: We are interested in the study of epidemic models in complex networks and systems. We approach this area from two directions. The first one is the theoretical perspective aimed at studying the basic theory that govern epidemic behavior in large-scale complex multi-scale network and agent-based epidemic models. The second one is the study of realistic models that progressively incorporate different social databases and infrastructures networks. This implies the construction of an open source computational platform that integrates epidemic models with a large variety of social and transportation data. | Vittoria Colizza, Alain Barrat, Marc Barthelemy, Alex Vespignani |  |
| Internet Structure: The Internet was originally conceived as an infrastructure aimed at helping the research effort, and surprisingly enough its success has led to a large-scale system that has become a scientific challenge by itself. This network is the outcome of a self organization process that gives rise to a large-scale infrastructure whose study is the object of an intense research activity. We are interested in both the characterization and modeling of these networks in connection with the social systems driving their growth and function.More | Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Alain Barrat, Fil Menczer, Alex Vespignani |  |
| Network theory, structure and models: Network theory has recently become a key ingredient in the description, analysis and understanding of a large variety of complex systems which can be characterized in terms of networks. Real-world examples range from networks of social contacts to networks of biological interactions, ecological systems, information architectures, infrastructures and many others. The main activity of our research in this area is the analysis and characterization of the network's structure and the development of models aimed at the understanding of the global behavior of these systems. | Vittoria Colizza, Sandro Flammini, Santo Fortunato, Mariangeles Serrano, Alex Vespignani |  |
| NetworkWorkbench: A Large-Scale Network Analysis, Modeling and Visualization Toolkit for Biomedical, Social Science and Physics Research. More | Katy Borner, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Santiago Schnell, Alex Vespignani, Stan Wasserman, Eric Wernert, Santo Fortunato |  |
| Lanet-vi: A tool for the visualization of the k-core structure of large scale graphs. More | Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin, Luca Dall'Asta, Alain Barrat, Alessandro Vespignani |  |
