Publications

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To Appear/Under Revision/In Preparation:

A. Nematzadeh, G. L. Ciampaglia, Y.-Y. Ahn, A. Flammini; Information Overload in Group Communication: From Conversation to Cacophony in the Twitch Chat, under revision: arXiv:1610.06497, 2016
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Peer Reviewed Journals and Conferences:

T.-L. Wu, B. Zhang, C. Davis, E. Ferrara, A. Flammini, F. Menczer, J. Qiu; Scalable Query and Analysis for Social Networks: An Integrated High-Level Dataflow System with Pig and Harp, Chapter 2 of Big Data in Complex and Social Networks, Big Data in Complex and Social Networks, pp 37-62, CRC Press 2016
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E. Ferrara, W.-Q. Wang, O. Varol, A. Flammini, A. Galstyan; Predicting Online Extremism, Content Adopters, and Interaction Reciprocity, In: Spiro E., Ahn YY. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10047. Springer, Cham
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C. A. Davis G. L. Ciampaglia, L. M. Aiello, K. Chung, M. D. Conover, E. Ferrara, A. Flammini, G. C. Fox, X. Gao, B. Gonçalves, P. A. Grabowicz, K. Hong, P.-M. Hui, S. McCaulay, K. McKelvey, M. R. Meiss, S. Patil, C. P. Kankanamalage, V. Pentchev, J. Qiu, J. Ratkiewicz, A. Rudnick, B. Serrette, P. Shiralkar, O. Varol, L. Weng, T.-. Wu, A. J. Younge, F. Menczer; OSoMe: the IUNI observatory on social media; PeerJ Computer Science 2:e87, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.87, 2016.
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E. Ferrara, O. Varol, F. Menczer, A. Flammini; Detection of Promoted Social Media Campaigns, Proceeding of the Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, pp 563, ICWSM 2016
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C. A. Davis, O. Varol, E. Ferrara, A. Flammini, F. Menczer Botornot: A system to evaluate social bots, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, Montréal, Québec, Canada, pp 273-274, 2016
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C. Shao, G. L. Ciampaglia, A. Flammini, F. Menczer; Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation, Third Workshop on Social News On the Web (SNOW), to be held in conjunction with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016) in Montreal.
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E. Ferrara, O. Varol, C. Davis, F. Menczer, A. Flammini; The rise of social bots, Communications of the ACM, 2016. [Featured on cover]
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V.S. Subrahmanian, A. Azaria, S. Durst, V. Kagan, A. Galstyan, K. Lerman, L. Zhu, E. Ferrara, A. Flammini, F. Menczer, et al.; The Twitter DARPA bot challenge, IEEE Computer, 49, 38–46, 2016. [Cover feature]
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D. Nikolov, D. F. M. Oliveira, A. Flammini, F. Menczer; Measuring online social bubbles, PeerJ Computer Science 1:e38, 2015.
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Tambuscio, G. Ruffo, A. Flammini, F. Menczer; Fact-checking Effect on Viral Hoaxes: A Model of Misinformation Spread in Social Networks. Companion Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, pp. 977-982, 2015
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L. Le, E. Ferrara, A. Flammini; On Predictability of Rare Events Leveraging Social Media: a Machine Learning Perspective; Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Online Social Networks, COSN 2015.
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B. Misic, R. F. Betzel, A. Nematzadeh, J. Goñi, A. Griffa, P. Hagmann, A. Flammini, Y.-Y. Ahn, O. Sporns; Cooperative and competitive spreading dynamics on the human connectome, Neuron, 86, 1518-1529, 2015. [Featured on cover]
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G. L. Ciampaglia, P. Shiralkar, L. M. Rocha, J. Bollen, A. Flammini; Computational fact checking from knowledge networks; PLOS ONE 10(6): e01289193, 2015. [IU release, press]
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Q. Ke, E. Ferrara, F. Radicchi, and A. Flammini; Defining and identifying sleeping beauties in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(24):7426-7431, 2015. [IU release, press]
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G. L. Ciampaglia, A. Flammini, F. Menczer; The production of information in the attention economy; Scientific Reports , 5, article #: 9452, doi:10.1038/srep09452, 2015.
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J. Kaur, E. Ferrara, F. Menczer, A. Flammini, and F. Radicchi. Quality versus quantity in scientific impact; Journal of Informetrics, doi:10.1016/j.joi.2015.07.008, 2015.
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L. Weng, F. Menczer, A. Flammini; Online interactions; In “Social Pheomena”, edited by N. Perra and G. Goncalves, 99-116, Springer International Publishing, 2015.
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O. Varol, E. Ferrara, C. L. Ogan, F. Menczer, A. Flammini; Evolution of online user behavior during a social upheaval; Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Web Science, 81-90, 2014. [Best Paper Award]
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M. JafariAsbagh, E. Ferrara, O. Varol, F. Menczer, and A. Flammini; Clustering memes in social media streams; Social Network Analysis and Mining 4(237), 1-13, 2014.
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A. Nematzadeh, E. Ferrara, A. Flammini, and Y.-Y. Ahn; Optimal clustering for information diffusion; Physical Review Letters 113:088701, 2014. [Editor’s pick]
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L. Floretta, J. Liechti, A. Flammini, and P. De Los Rios; Stochastic fluctuations and the detectability limit of network communities; Physical Review E 88, 060801, 2013.
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L. Weng, J. Ratkiewicz, N. Perra, B. Gonçalves, C. Castillo, F. Bonchi, R.Schifanella, F. Menczer and A. Flammini; The role of information diffusion in the evolution of social networks; In: Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2013.
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E. Ferrara, O. Varol, F. Menczer and A. Flammini; Traveling trends: social butterflies or frequent fliers? In: Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Online Social Networks, 213-222, COSN 2013.
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E. Ferrara, M. JafariAsbagh, O. Varol, V. Qazvinian, F. Menczer, and A. Flammini; Clustering memes in social media; In: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013.
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M. D. Conover, E. Ferrara, F.Menczer, and A. Flammini; The digital evolution of Occupy Wall Street, PLoS ONE, 8(5):e64679, 2013.
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X.Sun, J. Kaur, S. Milojevic, A. Flammini and F. Menczer; Social dynamics of science; Nature Scientific Reports, 3, 1069, 2013.
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M. D. Conover, C. Davis, E. Ferrara, K. McKelvey F. Menczer, and A. Flammini; The geospatial characteristics of a social movement communication network; PLoS ONE, 8(3):e55957, 2013.
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M. D. Conover, B. Gonçalves, A. Flammini and F. Menczer; Partisan asymmetries in online political activity; EPJ Data Science, 1, 6, 2012.
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L. Weng, A. Flammini, A. Vespignani and F. Menczer; Competition among memes in a world with limited attention; Nature Scientific Reports, 2, 335, 2012.
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M. Conover, B. Gonçalves, J. Ratkiewicz, A. Flammini and F. Menczer; Predicting the political alignment of Twitter users; In: Proceedings of the Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT) and 3rd IEEE Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2011.
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M. Conover, J. Ratkiewicz, M. Francisco, B. Gonçalves, A. Flammini and F. Menczer; Political polarization on Twitter; In: Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011.
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J. Ratkiewicz, M. Conover, M.Meiss, B. Gonçalves, A. Flammini and F. Menczer. Detecting and tracking political abuse in social media; In: Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011.
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L. Weng, A. Flammini and F. Menczer; An information propagation model based on user interests; In: H. Sayama, A. Minai, D. Braha and Y. Bar-Yam, editors, Unifying Themes in Complex Systems Volume VIII: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Complex Systems, ICCS 2011.
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J. Ratkiewicz, M. Conover, M. Meiss, B. Goncalves, S. Patil, A. Flammini and F. Menczer; Detecting and tracking the spread of astroturf memes in microblog streams; In: Proceedings of the 20th International Companion World Wide Web Conference, 249-252, WWW 2011.
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M. Meiss, B. Goncalves, J. Ramasco, A. Flammini and F. Menczer; Modeling traffic on the Web graph; In: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2010.
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J. Ratkiewicz, S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, F. Menczer, and A. Vespignani; Characterizing and modeling the dynamics of online popularity; Physical Review Letters, 105, 158701, 2010.
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M. Meiss, B. Goncalves, J. Ramasco, A. Flammini and F. Menczer; Agents, bookmarks and clicks: a topical model of Web navigation; In: Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT 2010.
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J. Ratkiewicz, F. Menczer, S. Fortunato, A. Flammini and A. Vespignani; Traffic in social media I: paths through information networks; In: Proceedings of International Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking, SIN-10, IEEE 2010.
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J. Ratkiewicz, F. Menczer, S. Fortunato, A. Flammini and A. Vespignani; Traffic in social media II: modeling bursty popularity; In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking, SIN-10, IEEE 2010.
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M. A. Serrano, A. Flammini, and F. Menczer; Modeling properties of written text; PLoS ONE 4(4): e5372, 2009.
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S. Fortunato, M. Bogugna, A. Flammini, and F. Menczer; On local estimations of PageRank: a mean field approach; Internet Mathematics 9, 401–425, 2009.
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B. Goncalves, M. R. Meiss, J. J. Ramasco, A. Flammini, and F. Menczer; Remembering what we like: toward an agent-based model of Web traffic; In: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining – Late Breaking Results , WSDM 2009.
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M. Barthelemy and A. Flammini; Modeling urban streets patterns; Physical Review Letters 100, 138702, 2008.
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M. Barthelemy and A. Flammini; Co-evolution of traffic and topology in a simple model of city formation; Networks and Spatial Economics, 9, 401–425, 2009.
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M. Meiss, F. Menczer, S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, and A. Vespignani; Ranking Web sites with real user traffic; In: Proceedings of the First ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2008.
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A. Flammini and A. Stasiak; On the natural classification of knots II; International Workshop on Knot Theory for Scientific Objects, 2007.
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Y. Burnier, C. Weber, A. Flammini, and A. Stasiak; Local selection rules that can determine specific pathways of DNA unknotting by type II DNA Topoisomerases; Nucleic Acids Research, 35, 5223–5231, 2007.
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A. Flammini and A. Stasiak; On the natural classification of knots; In: Proceeding of the Royal Society A, 463, 569–582, 2007.
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S. Fortunato and A. Flammini; Random walks on directed networks: the case of PageRank; International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 17, 2343–2353, 2007.
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V. Colizza, A. Flammini, M. A. Serrano and A. Vespignani; Detecting Rich-Club ordering in complex networks; Nature Physics 2, 110–115, 2006.
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J. R. Banavar, M. Cieplak, A. Flammini, T. H. Hoang, R. D. Kamien, T. Lezon, D. Marenduzzo, A. Maritan, F. Seno, Y. Snir, and A. Trovato; Geometry of proteins: hydrogen bonding, sterics and marginally compact tubes; Physical Review E, 73, 031921, 2006.
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S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, F. Menczer and A. Vespignani; Topical interests and the mitigation of search engine bias; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, 12684–12689, 2006.
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S. Fortunato, M. Bogugna, A. Flammini and F. Menczer; Approximating the Page-Rank from the in-degree; Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web (WAW2006) Banff, CA, Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4936, 59–71, 2006.
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S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, and F. Menczer; Scale-free network growth by ranking; Physical Review Letters 96, 218701, 2006.
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M. Barthélemy and A. Flammini; Optimal traffic networks; Journal of Statistical Mechanics L07002, 2006.
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V. Colizza, A. Flammini, A. Maritan and A. Vespignani; Characterization and modeling of protein-protein interaction networks; Physica A, 352, 1–27, 2005.
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D. Marenduzzo, A. Flammini, A. Trovato, J. R. Banavar and A. Maritan; Physics of thick polymers; Journal of Polymer Science. Part B: Polymer Physics 43, 650–679, 2005.
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S. Pigolotti, A. Flammini, M. Marsili and A. Maritan; Species lifetime distribution for simple models of Ecology; Proceeding of the National Academy of Science 102, 15747–15731, 2005.
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J. R. Banavar, P. De Los Rios, A. Flammini, N. Holter and A. Maritan; Scale-free behavior in random fragmentation and aggregation; Physical Review E, 69, 036123, 2004.
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S. Pigolotti, A. Flammini and A. Maritan; Stochastic model for the species abundance problem in an ecological community; Physical Review E, 70, 011916, 2004.
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A. Flammini, A. Stasiak and A. Maritan; Simulations of action of DNA Topoisomerases to investigate boundaries and shapes of spaces of knots; Biophysical Journal, 87, 2698–2975, 2004.
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A. Vazquez, A. Flammini, A. Maritan and A. Vespignani; Global optimization method for protein classification using interaction data; Nature Biotechnology 21, 697–700, 2003.
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F. Bagnoli, F. Cecconi, A. Flammini and A. Vespignani; Short period attractors and non-ergodic behavior in the deterministic, fixed-energy sandpile model; Europhysics Letters 63, 512–518, 2003.
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J. R. Banavar, A. Flammini, D. Marenduzzo, A. Maritan and A. Trovato; Geometry of compact tubes and protein structures; ComplexUs, 1, 4–13, 2003.
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A. Vazquez, A. Flammini, A. Maritan and A. Vespignani; Modeling of protein interaction networks; ComplexUs 1, 38–44, 2003.
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J. R. Banavar, A. Flammini, D. Marenduzzo, A. Maritan and A. Trovato; Tubes at the edge of compactness; Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 15, S1787–S1796, 2003.
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C. Micheletti, F. Cecconi, A. Flammini and A. Maritan; Determination of crucial folding sites through a solvable, self-consistent model; Protein Science 11, 1878–1887, 2002.
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A. Flammini, J. R. Banavar and A. Maritan; Energy landscape and native state structure of proteins – a simplified model; Europhysics Letters 58, 623–629, 2002.
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J. R. Banavar, F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Maritan, and A. Rinaldo; Scaling, optimality and landscape evolution; Journal of Statistical Physics 104, 1–48, 2001.
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R. C. Ball, G. Caldarelli and A. Flammini; Angular structure of lacunarity and the renormalization group; Physical Review Letters 85, 5134–5137, 2000.
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J. R. Banavar, F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Maritan, and A. Rinaldo; Topology of the fittest transportation network; Physical Review Letters 84, 4745–4748, 2000.
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M. R. Swift, F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Maritan and A. Rinaldo; Scaling relationship in agglomeration and annhilation models; Physical Review Letters 79 3278–3281, 1997.
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J. R. Banavar, F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Maritan, A Giacometti and A. Rinaldo; Sculpiting of a fractal river basin; Physical Review Letters 78, 4522–4525, 1997.
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F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Maritan, and J. R. Banavar; Analytical and numerical study of optimal channel networks; Physical Review E 55, 1298–1310, 1996.
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A. Maritan, F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, M. Cieplak and J. R. Banavar; Universality classes of optimal channel networks; Science 272, 984–986, 1996.
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A. Maritan, A. Rinaldo, F.Colaiori, A. Flammini, R. Rigon, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and J. R. Banavar; Thermodynamics of fractal networks; Physical Review Letters 76, 3364–3367, 1996.
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A. Flammini and F. Colaiori; Exact analysis of Peano basin; Journal of Physics A 29, 6701–6708, 1996.
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Other Publications:

T. Wu, B. Zhang, C. Davis, E. Ferrara, A. Flammini, F. Menczer, J. Qiu; Scalable Query and Analysis for Social Networks: An Integrated High-Level Dataflow System with Pig and Harp. Big Data in Complex and Social Networks, 2015
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G.-L. Ciampaglia, E. Ferrara, A. Flammini. Collective Behaviors and Networks; EPJ Data Science, 3(37):1-6, 2014
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A. Vazquez, A. Flammini, A. Maritan, and A. Vespignani; Reply to “The art of gene function prediction”; Nature Biotechnology 24, 1475–1476, 2006.
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S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, F. Menczer, and A. Vespignani; Googlearchy or Googlocracy; IEEE Spectrum on line, 2006.
A. Maritan, J. R. Banavar, M. Cieplak, F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Giacometti, A. Rinaldo, and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe; Statistical mechanics of river networks; Proceedings of STATPHYS19, Editor Hao Bailin, World Scientific, Singapore, 1996.
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A. Rinaldo, A. Maritan, F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, M. R. Swift, R. Rigon, J. R. Banavar and I. Rodriguez Iturbe; On Feasible Optimality; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti: Rapporti e Studi, 1996.
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