The use of a network representation has become commonplace for describing and studying a large number of complex systems: the elements of the systems are seen as nodes, and links between nodes represent pairwise interactions.

Networks are all around us and they are indeed at the base of many transformative technologies that have made the world even more connected and globalized. With the advent of modern computational means, the study of complex networked systems has reached a new dimension, spurring new mathematical and computational approaches.

“Semantic Grounding of Tag Relatedness in Social Bookmarking Systems”, a paper published in 2008 by ISI Scientific Director Ciro Cattuto, Dominik Benz, Andreas Hotho and Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel) was awarded the SWSA 10-year award.

Dynamic networks exhibit temporal patterns that vary across different time scales, all of which can potentially affect processes that take place on the network.

Early access in prestigious galleries and museums matters. A lot. A new study published in Science magazine,“Quantifying Reputation and Success in Art", shows how debuting at the right places in the art world plays a key role in the future career of young artists.

Spreading processes have been largely studied in the literature, both analytically and by means of large-scale numerical simulations. “Fundamentals of spreading processes in single and multilayer complex networks” is a new scientific paper, out in Physics Reports, that offers a whole suite of methods to study epidemic-like processes in complex networks, both for researchers without previous experience in the subject and for experts.

In the last decades, high-impact science has been increasingly achieved through the combination of ideas coming from different disciplines. Nevertheless the most prestigious award in science, the Nobel Prize, is still awarding few individual categories (physics, chemistry, phisiology or medicine), favouring papers that generate very little interest outside of their awarded field.

Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009 as an alternative to the banking system. Not only does it offer a payment mechanism without any centralized control (by institutions, governments or banks), but it has also introduced the revolutionary concept of the blockchain.

I Big Data sono una potenzialità o una minaccia? È la domanda che appare nel titolo dell'incontro in programma mercoledì 17 ottobre all'Auditorium dell'Orto Botanico di Padova, in cui il presidente della Fondazione ISI Mario Rasetti sarà intervistato dal giornalista del Sole 24 Ore Luca Tremolada. 

ISI Foundation Scientific Director Ciro Cattuto and ISI Research Leader Yelena Mejova are invited speakers at the first Symposium on Digital Demography, organized and hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.

Four new researchers are joining the ISI Fellow program for 2018-2021. They are: Aris Gionis (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland), Bruno Gonçalves (JP Morgan, New York, US), Marton Karsai (ENS Lyon, Lyon, France) and Rossano Schifanella (Università di Torino, Torino, Italy).

ISI Foundation Vice Chair of Scientific Advisory Board Alessandro Vespignani received the 2018 Senior Scientific Award and Service Award, assigned by the Complex Systems Society.

From 23rd September to 28th September, Thessaloniki (Greece) is hosting CCS2018 – Conference on Complex Systems. 

How can tensor factorization help the study of temporal networks? ISI Foundation Research Leader Laetitia Gauvin will discuss this issue, Friday 14th September, at the “Tensors” workshop in Torino. 

Mobility in indoor and outdoor environments can be a challenging task for visually impaired people (VIP), especially when navigating in unfamiliar sites.

What is, may and will be the role of Data Science for private and public goods? ISI Foundation Scientific Director and Data Science Laboratory Director Ciro Cattuto will address this fundamental question on his talk at the sixth País Digital summit in Las Condes, Chile.