Complex Networks

Anões do Orçamento, Dossiê Cayman, Pasta Rosa, Máfia dos fiscais, compra de votos para a reeleição. À parte a CPI do Banestado, que voltou a ganhar destaque ao ser mencionada de forma caricata na série O Mecanismo, da Netflix, os muitos escândalos de corrupção que assolaram o Brasil após a redemocratização parecem estar fadados ao esquecimento.

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv January 20, 2018.

According to the World Bank, corruption scandals siphon more than $2 trillion per year from the global economy, making corruption one of the major causes of slow economic growth and socioeconomic inequality. Now in a new study, researchers have demonstrated that it may be possible to predict who will play a role in future scandals by modeling current scandals using networks. The results may provide a tool for detecting corruptive practices and reducing the high cost of corruption to society.

Corruptive behaviour in politics limits economic growth, embezzles public funds, and promotes socio-economic inequality in modern …

We report on a large-scale characterization of river discharges by employing the network framework of the horizontal visibility graph. …