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Alessandro Vespignani

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Sternberg Distinguished Professor
Department of Physics
College of Computer and Information Sciences
Bouve' College of Health Sciences

Northeastern University 

Contact Information
132 Nightingale Hall
Northeastern University · 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Email: a.vespignani[at]neu[dot]edu

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Books | Editorial Materials and Book Chapters | Peer Reviewed Journal Articles | Computer Science Conference Proceedings | Physical Science Conference Proceedings

Books
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    A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy & 
    A. Vespignani.
    Dynamical processes on Complex Networks.
    Cambridge University Press (2008)
    Fourth reprint in 2010

    Kindle edition in  2012
    Paperback edition 2013
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    R. Pastor-Satorras & 
    A. Vespignani.
    Evolution and Structure of the Internet: a Statistical Physics Approach.
    Cambridge University Press (2004).
    Paperback publication in 2007.
    Translated in French by 
    Belin Editeur, (Paris 2004).


    Editorial Materials and Book Chapters
      • F. Radicchi, S. Fortunato and A. Vespignani.
        Citation Networks.
        in A. Scharnhorst et al. (eds) Models of Science Dynamics, pp 233-257, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2012. [PDF]
      • Pastor-Satorras, R., and A. Vespignani.
        Complex Networks: Patterns of Complexity.
        Nature Physics. 6: 480-481 (2010). [PDF]
      • Vespignani, A.
        Complex networks: The fragility of interdependency.
        Nature. 464: 984-985 (2010). [PDF]
      • Colizza, V., and A. Vespignani.
        The Flu Fighters.
        Physics World. 23, no. 2: 26-30 (2010). [PDF]
      • D. Helbing J. Jost and A. Vespignani eds.
        Networks and Complexity.
        Special issue of Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 3: (2008).
      • G. Caldarelli and A. Vespignani eds.
        Large Scale Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks.
        World Scientific. (Singapore 2007).
      • D.Krioukov, kc Claffy, M. Fomenkov, F. Chung, A. Vespignani and W. Willinger.
        The workshop on Internet Topology (WIT) Report.
        ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR). 37: 69-73 (2007). [PDF]
      • F.Menczer, S. Fortunato, A. Flammini and A. Vespignani.
        Googlearchy or Googlocracy?
        IEEE-Spectrum online. (2006). [PDF]
      • A.Vespignani.
        Networks: Complexity, Ubiquity and Relevance.
        Frontiers of Engineering. 75-82 (2005). [PDF]
      • A. Vespignani.
        Complex Networks: Beyond enemy lines.
        Nature Physics. 1: 135-136, (2005).
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Epidemics and immunization in scale-free networks.
        In “Handbook of Graphs and Networks: From the Genome to the Internet”.
        S. Bornholdt and H.G. Schuster ed.s, pp.113-132 (Wiley-VCH, Berlin, 2002). [PDF]
      • M. Boguna, R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Epidemic spreading in complex networks with degree correlations.
        In “Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks: Lecture Notes in Physics”. 625: 127-147 (2003). [PDF]

      Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

        2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000-1990

      2012
      • N. Perra, A. Baronchelli, D. Mocanu, B. Goncalves, R. Pastor-Satorras, A. Vespignani
      •  Random walks and search in time-varying networks 
         Phys. Rev. Letters, 109, 238701, (2012) [PDF]
      • M. Tizzoni, P. Bajardi, C. Poletto, J. J. Ramasco, D. Balcan, B. Goncalves, N. Perra, V. Colizza, A. Vespignani 
               Real-time numerical forecast of global epidemic spreading: case study of 2009 A/H1N1pdm 
               BMC Medicine 10, 165  (2012) [PDF]
      • Fumanelli, M.Ajelli, P. Manfredi, A. Vespignani and S. Merler
      •  Inferring the Structure of Social Contacts from Demographic Data in the Analysis of Infectious Diseases Spread    
         PLoS Computational Biology 8: e1002673 (2012) [PDF]
      • L. Weng, A. Flammini, A. Vespignani & F. Menczer
      •  Competition among memes in a world with limited attention        
         Nature Scientific Reports 2, 335 (2012) [PDF]
      • A. Vespignani
        Modeling Dynamical Processes in Complex Socio-technical Systems
        Nature Physics 8, 32-39 (2012). [PDF]
      • D. Balcan and A. Vespignani.
        Invasion Threshold in Structured Populations with Recurrent Mobility Patterns
        Journal of Theoretical Biology 293, 87-100 (2012). [PDF]

      2011
      • A.C. Singer, V.  Colizza Vittoria, H. Schmitt, J. Andrews, D. Balcan, W.E. Huang, V.D.J.Keller, A. Vespignani, R.J. Williams,
             Assessing the Ecotoxicologic Hazards of a Pandemic Influenza Medical Response
             Environmental Health Perspectives  119, 1084-1090 (2011) [PDF]
      • S. Meloni, N. Perra, A. Arenas, S. Gomez, Y. Moreno, A. Vespignani
              Modeling human mobility responses to the large-scale spreading of infectious diseases 
              Nature Scientific Reports 1, 62 (2011) [PDF]
      •  N. Perra, D. Balcan, B. Gonçalves, A. Vespignani
              Towards a characterization of behavior-disease models, 
              PLoS ONE 6(8): e23084 (2011) [PDF]
      • D. Balcan, A. Vespignani
              Phase transitions in contagion processes mediated by recurrent mobility patterns
              Nature Physics 7, 581-586 (2011) [PDF]                                                                                                                          
      • B. Goncalves, N. Perra, A. Vespignani
             Modeling Users' Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar's Number, 
             PLoS ONE 6(8): e22656, (2011) [PDF]                                                                        
      • M.Meiss, F. Menczer, A. Vespignani 
             Properties and Evolution of Internet Traffic Networks from Anonymized Flow Data
             ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 10, 15 (2011) [PDF].
      • W. Van den Broeck, C. Gioannini, B. Goncalves, M. Quaggiotto, V. Colizza, A. Vespignani
             The GLEaMviz computational tool, a publicly available software to explore realistic epidemic spreading scenarios at the global scale.
             BMC Infectious Diseases 11, 37 (2011) [PDF]
      • P. Bajardi, C. Poletto, Jose J. Ramasco, M. Tizzoni1, V. Colizza, A. Vespignani.
             Human Mobility Networks, Travel Restrictions, and the Global Spread of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic.
             PLOS ONE 6(1): e16591 (2011) [PDF]

      2010
      • 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). [PDF]
      • Ajelli, M., B. Goncalves, D. Balcan, V. Colizza, H. Hu, JJ. Ramasco, S. Merler, and A. Vespignani.
        Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: Agent-based versus structured metapopulation models.
        BMC Infectious Diseases. 10: 190 (2010). [PDF]
      • Cattuto, C., W. Van den Broeck, A. Barrat, V. Colizza, JF. Pinton, and A. Vespignani.
        Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks.
        PLOS ONE. 5, e11596 (2010). [PDF]
      • D Balcan, B Goncalves, H Hu, JJ Ramasco, V Colizza, A Vespignani.
        Modeling the spatial spread of infectious diseases: The GLobal Epidemic and Mobility computational model.
        Journal of Computational Science. 1: 132 (2010). [PDF]

      2009
      • Radicchi, F., S. Fortunato, B. Markines, and A. Vespignani.
        Diffusion of scientific credits and the ranking of scientists.
        Phys. Rev. E. 80, 056103, (2009). [PDF]
      • Schweitzer, F., G. Fagiolo, D. Sornette, F. Vega-Redondo, A. Vespignani, and D. R. White.
        Economic Networks: The New Challenges. 
        Science. 325 , 422-425 (2009). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza, A. Vespignani, N. Perra, C. Poletto, B. Gonçalves, H. Hu, D. Balcan, D. Paolotti, W. Van den Broeck, M. Tizzoni, P. Bajardi, J. J. Ramasco.
        Estimate of Novel Influenza A/H1N1 cases in Mexico at the early stage of the pandemic with a spatially structured epidemic model. 
        Public Library of Science Currents: Influenza. RRN1129: (2009). [Link]
      • Serrano, M. A., M. Boguna, and A. Vespignani.
        Extracting the multiscale backbone of Complex Weighted Networks.
        Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 106: 6483-6488 (2009). [PDF]
      • D. Balcan, V. Colizza, A. Singer, C. Chouaid, H. Hu, B. Gonçalves, P. Bajardi, C. Poletto, J.J. Ramasco, N. Perra, M. Tizzoni, D. Paolotti, W. Van den Broeck, A.J. Valleron, A. Vespignani.
        Modeling the critical care demand and antibiotics resources needed during the Fall 2009 wave of influenza A(H1N1) pandemic.
        Public Library of Science Currents: Influenza. RRN1133: (2009). [Link]
      • P. Bajardi, C. Poletto, D. Balcan, H. Hu, B. Goncalves, J.J. Ramasco, D. Paolotti, N. Perra, M. Tizzoni, W. Van den Broeck, V. Colizza, A. Vespignani.
        Modeling vaccination campaigns and the Fall/Winter 2009 activity of the new A(H1N1) influenza in the Northern Hemisphere.
        Emerging Health Threats Journal. 2, e11: (2009). [PDF]
      • Balcan, D., V. Colizza, B. Goncalves, H. Hu, J. J. Ramasco, and A. Vespignani.
        Multiscale mobility networks and the spatial spreading of infectious diseases.
        Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 106, 21484-21489 (2009). [PDF]
      • Vespignani, A.
        Predicting the behavior of tecno-social systems.
        Science. 325, 425-428 (2009). [PDF]
      • D. Balcan, H. Hu, B. Goncalves, P. Bajardi, C. Poletto, J. J. Ramasco, D. Paolotti, N. Perra, M. Tizzoni, W. Van den Broeck, V. Colizza, and A. Vespignani.
        Seasonal transmission potential and activity peaks of the new influenza A(H1N1): a Monte Carlo likelihood analysis based on human mobility.
        BMC Medicine. 7: 45 (2009). [PDF]
      • Hu, H., S. Myers, V. Colizza, and A. Vespignani.
        WiFi networks and malware epidemiology.
        Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 106 1318-1323, (2009). [PDF]

      2008
      • Meiss, M., F. Menczer, and A. Vespignani.
        Structural Analysis of Behavioral Networks from the Internet.
        Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 41 (22): 06, (2008). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza and A. Vespignani.
        Epidemic modeling in metapopulation systems with heterogeneous coupling pattern: Theory and simulations.
        Journal of Theoretical Biology. 251: 450-467, (2008). [PDF]
      • J. I. Alvarez-Hamelin, L. Dall’Asta, A. Barrat and A. Vespignani.
        K-core decomposition of Internet graphs: hierarchies, self-similarity and measurement biases.
        Networks and Heterogeneous Media. 3: 395-411, (2008). [PDF]

      2007
      • K. Borner, S. Sanyal and A.Vespignani.
        Network Science.
        Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST). 41: 537-607, (2007). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza, M. Barthelemy, A.Barrat, and A. Vespignani.
        Predictability and epidemic pathways in global outbreaks of infectious diseases: the SARS case study.
        BMC-Medicine. 5: 34, (2007). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza, M. Barthelemy, A.Barrat, and A. Vespignani.
        Epidemic modeling in complex realities.
        C.R. Biologies. 330: 364-374, (2007). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza, A.Barrat, M. Barthelemy, and A. Vespignani.
        Epidemic predictability in meta-population models with heterogeneous couplings: the impact of disease parameter values.
        International Journal of Bif. and Chaos. 17: 2491-2500, (2007). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza, A.Barrat, M. Barthelemy, A. Valleron and A. Vespignani.
        Modeling the world-wide spread of pandemic influenza: baseline case and containment interventions.
        PLOS-Medicine. 4 e-13: 95-110, (2007). [PDF]
      • M.D. Serrano, M. Bogunya, A.G. Maguitman, S. Fortunato, A.Vespignani.
        Decoding the Structure of the WWW: A Comparative Analysis of Web Crawls.
        ACM Transactions on the Web. 1: 10 (2007). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza, A. Vespignani.
        Invasion threshold in Heterogeneous metapopulation models.
        Physical Review Letters. 99, 148701: (2007). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza, R. Pastor-Satorras, A. Vespignani.
        Reaction-Diffusion processes and meta-population models in Heterogeneous Networks.
        Nature Physics. 3: 276-282, (2007). [PDF]
      • A. de Montis, M. Barthelemy, A. Chessa, A. Vespignani.
        The structure of Inter-Urban traffic: A weighted network analysis.
        Journal of Environmental Planning B. 34: 905-924, (2007). [PDF]
      • M. D. Serrano, M. Bogunya, A. Vespignani.
        Patterns of dominant flows in the world trade web.
        Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. 2: 111-124, (2007). [PDF]

      2006
      • V. Colizza, A.Barrat, M. Barthelemy, and A. Vespignani.
        The modeling of global epidemics: stochastic dynamics and predictability.
        Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 68: 1893-1921 (2006). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza, A.Barrat, M. Barthelemy, and A. Vespignani.
        Prediction and predictability of global epidemics: the role of the airline transportation network.
        Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 103: 2015-2020, (2006). [PDF]
      • A. G. Maguitman, F. Menczer, F. Erdinc, H. Roinestad, A.Vespignani.
        Algorithmic Computation and Approximation of Semantic Similarity.
        World Wide Web. 9: 431 – 456, (2006). [PDF]
      • S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, F. Menczer and A. Vespignani.
        Topical interests and the mitigation of search engine biases.
        Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 103: 12684-12689, (2006). [PDF]
      • L.Dall’Asta, I.Alvarez-Hamelin, A.Barrat, A.Vàzquez, A.Vespignani.
        Exploring networks with traceroute-like probes: theory and simulations.
        Theoretical Computer Science. 355: 6-24, (2006). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza, A. Flammini, M.A. Serrano and A. Vespignani.
        Detecting Rich-club ordering in complex networks.
        Nature Physics. 2: 110-115, (2006). [PDF]
      • L. Dall’Asta, A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy and A. Vespignani.
        Vulnerability of weighted networks.
        Journal of Statistical Mechanics. P04006: (2006). [PDF]

      2005
      • M. Barthelemy, A. Barrat, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Vespignani.
        Dynamical patterns of epidemic outbreaks in complex heterogeneous networks.
        Journal of Theoretical Biology. 235: 275-288, (2005). [PDF]
      • L.Dall’Asta, I.Alvarez-Hamelin, A.Barrat, A.Vàzquez, A.Vespignani.
        Statistical theory of Internet exploration.
        Physical Review. E 71: 036135, (2005). [PDF]
      • V. Colizza, A. Flammini, A. Maritan and A. Vespignani.
        Characterization and modeling of protein-protein interaction networks.
        Physica A. 352: 1-27, (2005). [PDF]
      • M.Vergassola, A. Vespignani and B. Dujon.
        Cooperative evolution in protein complexes of yeast from comparative analyses of its interaction network.
        Proteomics. 5: 3116-3119, (2005). [PDF]
      • A. Barrat, M. Barthélemy, A. Vespignani.
        The effects of spatial constraints in the evolution of weighted complex networks.
        Journal of Statistical Mechanics. P05003: (2005). [PDF]
      • K. Borner, L. Dall’Asta, W.M. Ke and A. Vespignani.
        Studying the emerging global brain: Analyzing and visualizing the impact of co-authorship teams.
        Complexity. 10: 57-67, (2005). [PDF]

      2004
      • M. Barthelemy, A. Barrat, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Vespignani.
        Velocity and hierarchical spread of epidemic outbreaks in scale-free networks.
        Physical Review Letters. 92: 178701, (2004). [PDF]
      • Y. Moreno, M. Nekovee, and A. Vespignani.
        Efficiency and reliability of epidemic data dissemination in complex networks.
        Physical Review. E 69: 055101, (2004). [PDF]
      • A. Barrat, M. Barthélemy et A. Vespignani.
        Modeling the evolution of weighted networks.
        Physical Review. E 70: 066149, (2004). [PDF]
      • A. Barrat, M. Barthélemy et A. Vespignani.
        Weighted evolving networks: coupling topology and weights dynamics.
        Physical Review Letters. 92: 228701, (2004). [PDF]
      • A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Vespignani.
        The architecture of complex weighted networks.
        Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101: 3747-3752, (2004). [PDF]
      • G. Caldarelli, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Vespignani.
        Structure of cycles and local ordering in complex networks.
        European Physical Journal. B 38: 183-186, (2004). [PDF]
      • M. Boguñá, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Vespignani.
        Cut-offs and finite size effects in scale-free networks.
        European Physical Journal. B 38: 205-210, (2004). [PDF]

      2003
      • M. Boguñá, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Vespignani.
        Absence of epidemic threshold in scale-free networks with degree correlations.
        Physical Review Letters. 90: 028701, (2003). [PDF]
      • R. Percacci and A. Vespignani.
        Scale-free behavior of the Internet global performance.
        European Physical Journal. B 32: 411, (2003). [PDF]
      • A. Vazquez, A . Flammini, A. Maritan and A. Vespignani.
        Global protein function prediction in protein-protein interaction networks.
        Nature Biotechnology. 21: 697-700, (2003). [PDF]
      • A. Vazquez, A. Flammini, A. Maritan and A. Vespignani.
        Modeling of protein interaction networks.
        ComPlexUs. 1: 38-45, (2003). [PDF]
      • A.Vázquez, M.Boguñá, Y.Moreno, R.Pastor-Satorras, A.Vespignani.
        Topology and correlations in structured scale-free networks.
        Physical Review. E 67: 046111, (2003). [PDF]
      • Y. Moreno, R. Pastor-Satorras, A. Vázquez, and A. Vespignani.
        Critical load and congestion instabilities in scale-free networks.
        Europhysics Letters. 62: 292-298, (2003). [PDF]
      • C. Castellano, D. Vilone  and A. Vespignani.
        Incomplete ordering of the voter model on small-world networks.
        Europhysics  Letters.  63: 153-158, (2003). [PDF]
      • F. Bagnoli, F. Cecconi, A. Flammini and A. Vespignani.
        Short period attractors and non-ergodic behavior in the deterministic fixed-energy sandpile.
        Europhysics Letters. 63: 512-518, (2003). [PDF]

      2002
      • Y. Moreno, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Vespignani.
        Epidemic outbreaks in complex heterogeneous networks.
        European Physical Journal. B 26: 521-529, (2002). [PDF]
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Epidemic dynamics in finite size scale-free networks.
        Physical Review. E 65: 035108, (2002). [PDF]
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Immunization of complex networks.
        Physical Review. E 65: 036104, (2002). [PDF]
      • A. Vázquez, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Vespignani.
        Large-scale topological and dynamical properties of the Internet.
        Physical Review. E 65: 066130, (2002). [PDF]
      • M.Leone, A. Vazquez, A. Vespignani and R. Zecchina.
        Ferromagnetic ordering in graphs with arbitrary degree distribution.
        European Physics Journal. B 28: 191-197, (2002). [PDF]
      • D. Vilone, A. Vespignani and C. Castellano.
        Ordering phase transition in the one-dimensional Axelrod model.
        European Physics Journal. B 30: 399-406, (2002). [PDF]
      • M.-C. Miguel, A. Vespignani, M. Zaiser and S. Zapperi.
        Dislocation jamming and Andrade creep.
        Physical Review Letters. 89: 165501, (2002). [PDF]

      2001
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Epidemic dynamics and endemic states in complex networks.
        Physical Review. E 63: 066117, (2001). [PDF]
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Epidemic spreading in scale-free networks.
        Physical Review Letters. 86: 3200-3203, (2001). [PDF]
      • R. Pastor-Satorras, A. Vázquez, and A. Vespignani.
        Dynamical and correlation properties of the Internet.
        Physical Review Letters. 87: 258701, (2001). [PDF]
      • M.-C. Miguel, A. Vespignani, S. Zapperi, J.Weiss and J.R. Grasso
        Intermittent dislocation flow in viscoplastic deformation.
      • Nature. 410: 667-669, (2001). [PDF]
      • R.Dickman, M.Alava, M.A.Munoz, J.Peltola, A.Vespignani, S.Zapperi
        Critical behavior of a one-dimensional fixed-energy stochastic sandpile.
        Physical Review. E 64: 056104, (2001). [PDF]
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Reaction-diffusion system with self-organized critical behavior.
        European Physical Journal. B 19: 583-587, (2001). [PDF]
      • L.Pietronero, E.Tosatti, V.Tosatti and A. Vespignani.
        The Uneven Distribution of Numbers in Nature.
        Physica. A 293: 297-304, (2001). [PDF]

      2000 - 1990
      • R. Dickman, M. A. Munoz, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Paths to self-organized criticality.
        Invited review in Brazilian Journal of Physics. 30: 27, (2000). [PDF]
      • C. Castellano, M. Marsili, and A. Vespignani.
        Nonequilibrium phase transition in a model for social influence.
        Physical Review Letters. 85: 3536-3539, (2000). [PDF]
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Field theory of absorbing phase transitions with a non-diffusive conserved field.
        Physical Review. E 62: 5875R-5878R, (2000). [PDF]
      • M. Rossi, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Vespignani.
        Universality class of absorbing phase transitions with a conserved field.
        Physical Review Letters. 85: 1803-1806, (2000). [PDF]
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Anomalous scaling in the Zhang model.
        European Physical Journal. B 18: 197-200, (2000). [PDF]
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Critical behavior and conservation in directed sandpiles.
        Physical Review. E 62: 6195-6205, (2000). [PDF]
      • A. Vespignani, R. Dickman, M. A. Munoz and S.Zapperi.
        Absorbing-state phase transitions in fixed-energy sandpiles.
        Physical Review. E 62: 4564-4582, (2000). [PDF]
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Corrections to scaling in the forest-fire model.
        Physical Review. E 61: 4854-4859, (2000). [PDF]
      • R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani.
        Universality classes in directed sandpile models.
        Journal of Physics A: Math. Gen. 33: L33-L39, (2000). [PDF]
      • A. Barrat, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Fluctuations and Dissipations in sandpile models.
        Physical Review Letters. 83: 1962-1965, (1999). [PDF]
      • A. Chessa, H. E Stanley, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Universality in sandpiles.
        Physical Review. E 59: R12-R15, (1999). [PDF]
      • M. A. Munoz, R. Dickman, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Avalanche and Spreading Exponents in Systems with Absorbing
        States.
        Physical Review. E 59: 6175-6179, (1999). [PDF]
      • S.Zapperi, P.Ray, H.E.Stanley and A. Vespignani.
        Avalanches in Breakdown and Fracture Processes.
        Physical Review. E 59: 5049-5057, (1999). [PDF]
      • E.V. Ivashkevich, A.Povolotsky, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Dynamically Driven Renormalization Group applied to critical
        sandpiles model.
        Physical Review. E 60: 1239-1251, (1999). [PDF]
      • A. Chessa, E. Marinari, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Mean-Field Behavior of Low Dimensional Sandpile Model Below the Upper Critical Dimension.
        Physical Review. E 57: R6241-R6244, (1998). [PDF]
      • A. Vespignani, R. Dickman, M. A. Munoz and S.Zapperi.
        Driving, Conservation and Absorbing States in Sandpiles.
        Physical Review Letters. 81: 5676-5679, (1998). [PDF]
      • A. Chessa, E. Marinari and A. Vespignani.
        Energy-constrained Sandpile Models.
        Physical Review Letters. 80: 4217-4220, (1998). [PDF]
      • R. Dickman, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Self-Organized criticality as an Absorbing-State Phase Transition.
        Physical Review. E 57: 5095-5105, (1998). [PDF]
      • A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        How Self-Organized Criticality Works: A Unified Mean Field
        Picture.
        Physical Review. E 57: 6345-6362, (1998). [PDF]
      • A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Order Parameter and Scaling Fields in Self-Organized Criticality.
        Physical Review Letters. 78: 4793-4796, (1997). [PDF]
      • S.Zapperi, A. Vespignani and H.E.Stanley.
        Avalanche Dynamics in Microfracturing Phenomena.
        Nature. 388: 658-660, (1997). [PDF]
      • S.Zapperi, P.Ray, H.E.Stanley and A. Vespignani.
        First Order Transition in the Breakdown of Disordered Media.
        Physical Review Letters. 78: 1408-1411, (1997). [PDF]
      • A. Vespignani, S.Zapperi and V.Loreto.
        Dynamically Driven Renormalization Group.
        Journal of Statistical Physics. 88: 47-79, (1997). [PDF]
      • R.Cafiero, A. Vespignani, S.Zapperi and L.Pietronero.
        Scale Invariant Dynamics in Laplacian Fractal Growth.
        International Journal of Modern Physics. B 11: 3595-3619, (1997).
      • M. Piccioni, R.Cafiero and A. Vespignani.
        Monte Carlo FST for Non-local Fractal Growth Models.
        Physical Review. E 55: 1170-1173, (1997).
      • A. Vespignani, S.Zapperi and V.Loreto.
        Renormalization of Non-equilibrium Systems with Critical
        Stationary States.
        Physical Review Letters. 77: 4560-4563, (1996). [PDF]
      • V.Loreto, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Renormalization Scheme for Forest Fire Models.
        Journal of Physics. A 29: 2981-3004, (1996). [PDF]
      • A. Erzan, L. Pietronero and A. Vespignani.
        The Fixed Scale Transformation Approach to Fractal Growth.
        Review of Modern Physics. 67: 545-604, (1995).
      • V.Loreto, L.Pietronero, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Renormalization Group Approach to the Critical Behavior of the
        Forest Fire Model.
        Physical Review Letters. 75: 465-468, (1995). [PDF]
      • A. Vespignani, S.Zapperi and L.Pietronero.
        Renormalization Approach to the Self-Organized Critical Behavior
        of Sandpile Models.
        Physical Review. E 51: 1711-1724, (1995). [PDF]
      • R.Cafiero, V.Loreto, L.Pietronero, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Local Rigidity and Self-Organized Criticality for Avalanches.
        Europhysics Letters. 29: 111-116, (1995).
      • H.Kaufman, A. Vespignani, B.B.Mandelbrot and L.Woog.
        Parallel Diffusion Limited Aggregation.
        Physical Review. E 52: 5602-5609, (1995). [PDF]
      • B.B.Mandelbrot, A. Vespignani and H.Kaufman.
        Crosscuts Analysis in Large Plane DLA: Departures
        from Self-Similarity and Lacunarity Effects.
        Europhysics Letters. 32: 199-204, (1995).
      • B.B.Mandelbrot, H.Kaufman, A.Vespignani, Y.Yekutieli, C.H.Lam.
        Deviations from Self-Similarity in Plane DLA and the
        Infinite Drift Scenario.
        Europhysics Letters. 29: 599-604, (1995).
      • G.Caldarelli, A. Vespignani and L.Pietronero.
        Fixed Scale Transformation for Fracture Growth Processes
        Governed by Vectorial Fields.
        Physica. A 215: 223-232, (1995). [PDF]
      • A.Petri, G.Paparo, Vespignani, A.Alippi and M.Costantini.
        Experimental Evidence for Critical Dynamics
        in Microfracturing Processes.
        Physical Review Letters. 73: 3423-3426, (1994).
      • L.Pietronero, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Renormalization Scheme for Self-Organized Criticality
        in Sandpile Models.
        Physical Review Letters. 72: 1690-1693, (1994).
      • G.Caldarelli, C.Castellano and A. Vespignani.
        Fractal and Topological Properties of Directed Fractures.
        Physical Review. E 49: 2673-2679, (1994). [PDF]
      • M. Di Stasio, L.Pietronero, A.Stella and A. Vespignani.
        Fixed Scale Transformation Approach to Linear
        and Branched Polymers.
        Journal of Physics. A 27: 317-326, (1994).
      • A. Vespignani and L.Pietronero.
        Scale Invariant Dynamics and Universality Classes
        in Laplacian Fractal Growth.
        Fractals. 1: 1002, (1993).
      • L. Pietronero, S. Sidoretti and A. Vespignani.
        Fixed Scale Transformation Approach to Cluster-Cluster
        Aggregation.
        Fractals. 1: 41, (1993).
      • R.Cafiero, L.Pietronero and A. Vespignani.
        Persistence of Screening and Self-Criticality in
        the Scale Invariant Dynamics of DLA.
        Physical Review Letters. 70: 3939-3942, (1993). [PDF]
      • M.Vergassola and A. Vespignani.
        Non Conservative Character of the Intersection of
        Self-Similar Cascade.
        Physica. A 174: 425-437, (1991).
      • R. De Angelis, M.Marsili, L.Pietronero, A. Vespignani and
        H.J. Wiesmann.
        Universality of Growth Rules in Fractal Growth.
        Europhysics Letters. 16: 417-422, (1991).
      • A. Vespignani and L.Pietronero.
        Fixed Scale Transformation Approach Applied to Diffusion Limited
        Aggregation and the Dielectric Breakdown Model in Three
        Dimensions.
        Physica. A 173: 1-21, (1991).
      • A. Vespignani and L.Pietronero.
        Effect of Empty Configurations in the Fixed Scale
        Transformation Theory of Fractal Growth.
        Physica. A 168: 723-735, (1990). [PDF]

      Computer Science Conference Proceedings
      • M.R. Meiss, F. Menczer, S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, A. Vespignani.
        Ranking Web Sites with Real User Traffic.
        Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search & Data Mining.
        Palo Alto, California, USA, Feb 11-12: 65-75, (2008). [PDF]
      • Meiss, M., F. Menczer, and A. Vespignani.
        A Framework for Analysis of Anonymized Network Flow Data.
        National Science Foundation Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation NGDM’07. (2007). [PDF]
      • I. Alvarez-Hamelin, L. Dall’Asta, A. Barrat and A.Vespignani.
        Large scale networks fingerprinting and visualization using the k-core decomposition.
        In “Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)”,
        Y. Weiss, B. Scholkopf and J. Platt eds.
        MIT Press, Cambridge MA. 18: 41-50, (2006). [PDF]
      • M. Meiss, F. Menczer and A. Vespignani.
        On the lack of typical behavior in the global web traffic network.
        In “Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web (WWW05)”.
        ACM Press. 510-518, New York, NY, USA (2005). [PDF]
      • A.G. Maguitman, F. Menczer, H. Roinestad, A. Vespignani.
        Semantic querying: Algorithmic detection of semantic similarity.
        In “Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web (WWW05)”.
        ACM Press. 107-116,  New York, NY, USA (2005). [PDF]
      • L. Dall’Asta, I. Alvarez-Hamelin, A. Barrat, A. Vazquez and A. Vespignani.
        Traceroute-like exploration of unknown networks: a statistical analysis.
        Workshop on Combinatorial and Algorithmic Aspects of Networking.
        Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3405: 140-153, (2005). [PDF]
      • A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy and A. Vespignani.
        Traffic-driven model of the World Wide Web graph.
        3rd Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (WAW’04).
        Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3243, 56-67, (2004). [PDF]
      • L. Carbone, F. Coccetti, P. Dini, R. Percacci and A. Vespignani.
        The Spectrum of Internet Performance.
        Passive and Active Measurements (PAM 2003). [PDF]

      Physical Science Conference Proceedings
      • V. Colizza, A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy and A. Vespignani.
        Epidemic modeling in complex realities.
        Proceedings of the 31st Workshop of the International School of Solid State. Physics. 385-396, (2006). [PDF]
      • M. Barthelemy, A. Barrat, R. Pastor-Satorras, and A. Vespignani.
        Characterization and modeling of weighted networks.
        Proceedings of STATPHYS 2004 Calcutta Physica. A 346: 34-43, (2005). [PDF]
      • J. Weiss, J.-R. Grasso, M.-C. Miguel, A.Vespignani and S. Zapperi.
        Complex dislocation dynamics in ice: experiments.
        Materials Science and Engineering. 309-310: 360, (2001). [PDF]
      • M.-C. Miguel, A.Vespignani, S. Zapperi, J. Weiss and J.-R. Grasso.
        Complexity in dislocation dynamics model.
        Materials Science and Engineering. 309-310: 324, (2001). [PDF]
      • M.A. Munoz, R. Dickman, R. Pastor-Satorras, A. Vespignani, and S. Zapperi.
        Sandpiles and absorbing-state phase transitions: recent results and open problems.
        In ”Modeling Complex Systems”, Ed. J. Marro and P. L. Garrido.
        AIP Conference Proceedings. 574: 102, (2001). [PDF]
      • S.Zapperi, P.Ray, H.E.Stanley and A. Vespignani.
        Avalanches and Damage Clusters in Fracture Processes.
        Proceedings of the XVII Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics [PDF]
      • M. C. Miguel, A. Vespignani and S. Zapperi.
        Modeling collective dislocation dynamics in ice single crystals.
        MRS Symposium Proceedings series. 578: 212, (2000). [PDF]
      • S.Zapperi, P.Ray, H.E.Stanley and A. Vespignani.
        Analysis of damage clusters in fracture processes.
        Proceedings of the Inernational Conf. on statistical Physics Calcutta III.
        Physica. A 270: 57, (1999). [PDF]
      • A. Chessa, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Critical Exponents in Stochastic Sandpile Models.
        Proceedings of the EPS-IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics.
        P. L. Garrido, J. Marro and R. Toral eds.
        Computer Communications in Physics. 121-122: 299, (1999). [PDF]
      • A. Vespignani, S.Zapperi and V.Loreto.
        Dynamically Driven Renormalization Group Applied to Self-Organized Critical Systems.
        In “RG 96” edited by D.V.Shirkov, D.I. Kazakov and V.B.Priezzev.
        International Journal of Modern Physics. B 12: 1407, (1998). [PDF]
      • S.Zapperi, P.Ray, H.E.Stanley and A. Vespignani.
        Scaling for the Coalescence of Microfractures Before Breakdown.
        MRS Symposium Proceedings series. 463: 215, (1997). [PDF]
      • S.Zapperi, A. Vespignani and H.E.Stanley.
        Modeling Acoustic Emission in Microfracturing Processes.
        MRS Symposium Proceedings series. 409: 355, (1996). [PDF]
      • V. Loreto, L.Pietronero, A. Vespignani and S.Zapperi.
        Renormalization Group Approach for Forest Fire Models.
        in “Fractal Geometry and Analysis”, C.Evertsz, O.Peitgen and R.Voss eds.
        Proceedings of the symposium celebrating Mandelbrot’s 70th birthday.
        Fractals. 3: 445, (1995). [PDF]
      • L.Pietronero and A. Vespignani.
        Fractals, Self-Organized Criticality and the Fixed Scale Transformation.
        1993 Int. Conf. Complex Systems in Computational Physics.
        Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. 6: 471, (1995). [PDF]
      • F.Zaratti, I.Ruiz, L.Pietronero and A. Vespignani.
        Fixed Scale Transformation Applied to Fractal Aggregation with Levy
        Flight Particle Trajectories.
        1993 Int. Conf. Complex Systems in Computational Physics.
        Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. 6: 585, (1995). [PDF]
      • B.B.Mandelbrot, A. Vespignani and H.Kaufman.
        The Geometry of DLA: Different Aspects of the Departure from Self-Similarity.
        MRS symposium proceedings series. 367: 73, (1995). [PDF]
      • A.Vespignani, R. Cafiero and L.Pietronero.
        Asymptotic Screening in the Scale Invariant Growth Rules for
        Laplacian Fractals.
        Physica. A 191: 128-133, (1992). [PDF]
      • S.Sidoretti and A. Vespignani.
        Aggregation in Two and Three Dimensions.
        Physica. A 185: 202-210, (1992). [PDF]
      • A. Vespignani and L.Pietronero.
        Fixed Scale Transformation Approach to Fractal Growth in Three Dimensions.
        Dordrecht. (1990). [PDF]

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