Department of Computer Science

Complex Systems

Network science, stochastic processes and nonlinear dynamics.
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The Complex Systems research area studies diverse systems from social networks to the human brain and from cities to the human immune system, applying the tools of network science, stochastic processes, and nonlinear dynamics.

Brain & Mind Computational Seminar

Artificial intelligence, neuroscience, human behavior, and digital humanities.

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Bots were not very active on Twitter during the Finnish municipal elections 

The number of Twitter bots and their influence on the Finnish municipal elections remained low. The final report of ELEBOT project provided new information especially on technical limitations in identifying bots.

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Professor Jari Saramäki was granted funding from The Strategic Research Council (SRC)

Academy of Finland’s SRC provides funding for long-term research aimed at identifying solutions to major societal challenges.

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Maarit Korpi-Lagg turned her childhood hobbies into a living

As a child, Maarit Korpi-Lagg was interested in the stars and coding, and now she researches the activity of the sun, which could not be done without computer science

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International group of researchers: Mobile phone data should be utilized more to curb the corona pandemic

These types of data could help to curb the spread of the pandemic and to evaluate the effectiveness of restrictions

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'Mathematics is a bridge between different disciplines'

Psychology, medicine and philosophy are some of the subjects that Silja Sormunen has studied. That is why Complex Systems, part of Life Science Technologies programme, felt like just the thing she had been looking for. She is also in the Doctoral Track programme.

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Digital tracing apps should incorporate social connections to mitigate disease outbreaks

Digital tracing models could benefit from a closer look at social connections between app-users.

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Effectiveness of contact tracing on networks with cliques

Abbas K. Rizi, Leah Keating, James P. Gleeson, David O'Sullivan, Mikko Kivelä 2024 Physical Review E

Neuroscience meets behavior : A systematic literature review on magnetic resonance imaging of the brain combined with real-world digital phenotyping

Ana María Triana, Jari Saramäki, Enrico Glerean, Nicholas Mark Edward Alexander Hayward 2024 Human Brain Mapping

The Russian invasion of Ukraine selectively depolarized the Finnish NATO discussion on Twitter

Yan Xia, Antti Gronow, Arttu Malkamäki, Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, Barbara Keller, Mikko Kivelä 2024 EPJ Data Science

Reticula: A temporal network and hypergraph analysis software package

Arash Badie-Modiri, Mikko Kivelä 2023 SoftwareX

Investor trade allocation patterns in stock markets

Kęstutis Baltakys, Juho Kanniainen, Jari Saramäki, Mikko Kivelä 2023 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Temporal Link Prediction Methods Based on Behavioral Synchrony

Yueran Duan, Qing Guan, Petter Holme, Yacheng Yang, Wei Guan 2023 Temporal Network Theory

Estimating inter-regional mobility during disruption: Comparing and combining different data sources

Sara Heydari, Zhiren Huang, Takayuki Hiraoka, Alejandro Ponce de Leon Chavez, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Lasse Leskelä, Mikko Kivelä, Jari Saramäki 2023 Travel Behaviour and Society

The strength and weakness of disease-induced herd immunity

Takayuki Hiraoka, Abbas K. Rizi, Zahra Ghadiri, Mikko Kivelä, Jari Saramäki 2023 arXiv.org

Networks of climate change: connecting causes and consequences

Petter Holme, Juan C. Rocha 2023 Applied Network Science

Temporal Network Theory

Petter Holme, Jari Saramäki 2023
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