Information Spreading Dynamics in Complex Networks
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Complexity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 336
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
How can we quickly and effectively promote new commercial products and suppress the spread of rumors and infectious diseases? How can we mine influential spreaders or community structures in complex networks? How do industrial structures affect economic development? These are all issues that are closely related to social networks’ complex structure. Information dissemination in complex networks is an extremely important research topic, the dynamics of which are addressed in this Special Issue. The main topics include but are not limited to the following:
- spreading process and phase transition in complex networks, especially in temporal networks;
- information spreading, network attack and defense, and network security in resilient and recoverable networks;
- influence spreaders or community structure detection;
- collaborative evolution and mutual influence between information spreading and network structure, especially between spreading and high-order network structure.
Prof. Dr. Duanbing Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- information spreading
- complex networks
- temporal networks
- resilient and recoverable networks
- simplicial complex
- influential spreaders
- phase transition
- network attack and defense
- collaborative evolution
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