A complex network provides a framework for modeling many real-world phenomena in the form of a network. In general, a complex network is considered as a graph of real world phenomena such as biological networks, ecological networks, technological networks, information networks and particularly...

In recent years there has been considerable interest in the structure and dynamics of complex networks. One of the most studied networks is the linear Barabási–Albert model. Here we investigate the nonlinear Barabási–Albert growing network. In this model, a new node connects to a vertex of...

This study tests the feasibility, effectiveness, and efficiency of respondent-driven sampling (RDS) as a Web-based sampling method. Web-based RDS (WebRDS) is found to be highly efficient and effective. The online nature of WebRDS allows referral chains to progress very quickly, such that studies...

In recent years, online social networks (OSN) have emerged as a platform of sharing variety of information about people, and their interests, activities, events and news from real worlds. Due to the large scale and access limitations (e.g., privacy policies) of online social network services...

Traditional sampling techniques have not yielded desired results when applied to hidden or rare populations. A hidden population of considerable interest in Nigeria is that of students in tertiary institutions engaged in substance abuse because of the stigma surrounding such habits and the high...

We show how appropriate rewiring with the aid of Metropolis Monte Carlo computational experiments can be exploited to create network topologies possessing prescribed values of the average path length (APL) while keeping the same connectivity degree and clustering coefficient distributions. Using...

We explore a new variant of Small-World Networks (SWNs), in which an additional parameter (r) sets the length scale over which shortcuts are uniformly distributed. When r=0 we have an ordered network, whereas r=1 corresponds to the original Watts–Strogatz SWN model. These limited range SWNs...

This work introduces a network model of an interbank market based on interbank credit lending relationships. It generates some network features identified through empirical analysis. The critical issue to construct an interbank network is to decide the edges among banks, which is realized in...

This paper proposes how to build a syntactic network based on syntactic theory and presents some statistical properties of Chinese syntactic dependency networks based on two Chinese treebanks with different genres. The results show that the two syntactic networks are small-world networks, and...