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Biography

Dr Michael T. Gastner is Associate Professor for Information and Communication Technologies at the Singapore Institute of Technology.

He received the Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. He was postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, the Computer Science Department of the University of New Mexico and the University of Oldenburg’s Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment. After a Junior Research Fellowship at Imperial College London and a Lectureship in Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol, he spent two years at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Afterwards, he moved to Singapore, where he held an Assistant Professorship at Yale-NUS College before he joined the Singapore Institute of Technology.

His current research interests are at the intersection of mathematical modelling, computer science and geospatial data analysis.

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Employment (7)

Singapore Institute of Technology: Singapore, SG

2023-01-03 to present | Associate Professor (Information and Communication Technologies Cluster)
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Yale-NUS College: Singapore, SG

2015-07-01 to 2022-12-31 | Assistant Professor (Division of Science)
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Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Budapest, HU

2013-11-01 to 2015-06-30 | Marie Curie Fellow (Institute of Technical Physics and Material Science)
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University of Bristol: Bristol, Bristol, GB

2012-09-01 to 2013-10-31 | Lecturer (Engineering Mathematics)
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Imperial College London: London, London, GB

2009-12-01 to 2012-08-31 | Junior Research Fellow (Mathematics)
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Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg: Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, DE

2008-05-01 to 2009-11-30 | Research Fellow (Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment)
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Santa Fe Institute: Santa Fe, NM, US

2005-10-01 to 2008-05-31 | Postdoctoral Fellow
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Education and qualifications (1)

University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI, US

2000-09-01 to 2005-08-31 | PhD (Physics)
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Professional activities (7)

International Cartographic Association's Commission on Map Projections: Zagreb, HR

2019-10-08 to present | Member
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Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e V: Bad Honnef, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

2011-01-01 to present | Member
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Philadelphia, PA, US

2005-01-01 to present | Member
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Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Budapest, HU

2018-10-01 to 2018-12-31 | Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Centre for Social Sciences)
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University of New Mexico: Albuquerque, NM, US

2008-01-01 to 2008-05-31 | Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher (Computer Science)
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University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI, US

2004-04-01 to 2004-04-01 | Wirt and Mary Cornwell Prize (Physics)
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Max Kade Foundation: New York, New York, US

2000-09-01 to 2001-04-30 | Scholarship
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Funding (11)

Yale-NUS College Research Recognition Award

2021-07 to 2023-06 | Award
Yale-NUS College (Singapore, SG)
GRANT_NUMBER:

R-607-265-503-750
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Topological colouring algorithm for cartograms

2021-05 to 2021-06 | Grant
Yale-NUS College (Singapore, SG)
GRANT_NUMBER:

C-607-261-026-001
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Developing the Web Application go-cart.io for Generating Cartograms

2020-01 to 2022-06 | Grant
Ministry of Education - Singapore (Singapore, SG)
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607-000-401-114
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Networks and Cartography

2016-01 to 2020-12 | Grant
Ministry of Education - Singapore (Singapore, SG)
GRANT_NUMBER:

R-607-265-242-121
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Yale-NUS Research Cluster Seminar Grant

2016-01 to 2017-12 | Grant
Yale-NUS College (Singapore, SG)
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Statistical Physics of Network Formation Games

2013-11 to 2015-06 | Contract
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
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6-4564/2013
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Building Global Engagements in Research

2012-10 to 2013-05 | Award
University of Bristol (Bristol, GB)
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Imperial College Junior Research Fellowship

2009-12 to 2012-07 | Award
Imperial College London (London, GB)
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Complexity and Networks

2009-11 to 2012-08 | Salary award
Imperial College London (London, GB)
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Computational Science Fellowship

2009-05 to 2009-11 | Salary award
Volkswagen Foundation (Hannover, DE)
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Spatial Distributions: Density-equalizing Map Projections, Facility Location, and Two-dimensional Networks

2005-01 to 2005-05 | Grant
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan (MI, MI, US)
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Herbarium specimens reveal a cryptic invasion of polyploid Centaurea stoebe in Europe

New Phytologist
2025-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/nph.20212
Contributors: Christoph Rosche; Olivier Broennimann; Andriy Novikov; Viera Mrázová; Ganna V. Boiko; Jiří Danihelka; Michael T. Gastner; Antoine Guisan; Kevin Kožić; Marcus Lehnert et al.
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Effectiveness of Area-to-Value Legends and Grid Lines in Contiguous Area Cartograms

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
2024 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3275925
Contributors: Kelvin L. T. Fung; Simon T. Perrault; Michael T. Gastner
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Effectiveness of Large-Language Models in Recognizing Spatially Intensive Statistical Data

Singapore Institute of Technology
2024 | Other
DOI: 10.25447/sit.27088597
Contributors: Atima Tharatipyakul; Haw Yuh Loh; Simon T. Perrault; Yong WANG; Michael T. Gastner
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Effectiveness of Large-Language Models in Recognizing Spatially Intensive Statistical Data

Singapore Institute of Technology
2024 | Other
DOI: 10.25447/sit.27088597.v1
Contributors: Atima Tharatipyakul; Haw Yuh Loh; Simon T. Perrault; Yong WANG; Michael T. Gastner
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Herbarium specimens reveal a cryptic invasion of polyploid Centaurea stoebe in Europe - ITS1 dataset

Zenodo
2024-10-08 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13894115
Contributors: Christoph Rosche; Olivier Broennimann; Andriy Novikov; Viera Mrázová; Ganna Boiko; Jiří Danihelka; Michael T. Gastner; Antoine Guisan; Kevin Kozic; Marcus Lehnert et al.
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Herbarium specimens reveal a cryptic invasion of polyploid Centaurea stoebe in Europe - ITS1 dataset

Zenodo
2024-10-08 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13903690
Contributors: Christoph Rosche; Olivier Broennimann; Andriy Novikov; Viera Mrázová; Ganna Boiko; Jiří Danihelka; Michael T. Gastner; Antoine Guisan; Kevin Kozic; Marcus Lehnert et al.
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Herbarium specimens reveal a cryptic invasion of polyploid Centaurea stoebe in Europe - ITS1 dataset

Zenodo
2024-10-05 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13894116
Contributors: Christoph Rosche; Olivier Broennimann; Andriy Novikov; Viera Mrázová; Ganna Boiko; Jiří Danihelka; Michael T. Gastner; Antoine Guisan; Kevin Kozic; Marcus Lehnert et al.
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Comparative evaluation of the web-based contiguous cartogram generation tool go-cart.io

PLOS ONE
2024-05-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298192
Contributors: Ian K. Duncan; Ankit Gupta; Michael T. Gastner
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Cybersecurity Monitoring/Mapping of USA Healthcare (All Hospitals) - Magnified Vulnerability due to Shared IT Infrastructure, Market Concentration, & Geographical Distribution

2023-11-20 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3689942.3694754
Contributors: William Yurcik; Andreas Schick; Stephen North; Michael T. Gastner; Fabio Roberto de Miranda; Rodolfo da Silva Avelino; Andre Filipe de Moraes Batista; Gregory Pluta; Ian Brooks
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Topology-Aware Algorithm for Constructing Cartograms from Density- Equalising Map Projections

2023-10-05 | Lecture | Author
DOI: 10.25447/sit.24247828
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Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; Nguyen Phong Le; Nihal Z Miaji; Adi Singhania
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Topology-Aware Line Densification for Reprojected Curves on Maps

2023-10-05 | Lecture | Author
DOI: 10.25447/sit.24247900
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Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; Nihal Z Miaji; Adi Singhania; Nguyen Phong Le
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Teaching Data Visualisation and Basic Map-Making Skills at a Liberal Arts College

Kartografija i geoinformacije
2023-07-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.32909/kg.22.39.3
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner
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Smooth Pycnophylactic Interpolation Produced by Density-Equalising Map Projections

Kartografija i geoinformacije
2022-07-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.32909/kg.21.37.3
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; Nihal Z. Miaji; Adi Singhania
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Balancing shape distortions and contiguity in cartograms

Abstracts of the ICA
2021-12-13 | Conference abstract
DOI: 10.5194/ica-abs-3-87-2021
Part of ISSN: 2570-2106
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Michael T. Gastner

Cartogram

Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences
2021-11-18 | Encyclopedia entry
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26050-7_55-1
Part of ISBN: 9783030260507
Part of ISBN: 9783030260507
Part of ISSN: 1388-4360
Part of ISSN: 1871-756X
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Michael T. Gastner

Mapping the inequality of the global distribution of seasonal influenza vaccine

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
2021-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X21998356
Contributors: Yen Ching Yau; Michael T Gastner
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Modelling on the very large-scale connectome

Journal of Physics: Complexity
2021-09-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/2632-072x/ac266c
Part of ISSN: 2632-072X
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Agent-based neutral competition in two-community networks

Physical Review E
2021-08-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.104.024308
Contributors: Kota Ishida; Beata Oborny; Michael T. Gastner
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Task-Based Effectiveness of Interactive Contiguous Area Cartograms

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
2021-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3041745
Contributors: Ian K. Duncan; Shi Tingsheng; Simon T. Perrault; Michael T. Gastner
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Beyond Fortune 500: Women in a Global Network of Directors

Studies in Computational Intelligence
2020 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36683-4_47
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2-s2.0-85087882794

Part of ISSN: 18609503 1860949X
Contributors: Evtushenko, A.; Gastner, M.T.
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Motivating good practices for the creation of contiguous area cartograms

8th Int. Conf. Cartogr. GIS
2020 | Conference paper
Part of ISSN: 1314-0604
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Michael T. Gastner

Mean Consensus Time of the Voter Model on Networks Partitioned into Two Cliques of Arbitrary Sizes

8th Int. Conf. Complex Networks and Their Applications
2019 | Conference abstract
Part of ISBN: 978-2-9557050-3-2
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Michael T. Gastner

Voter model on networks partitioned into two cliques of arbitrary sizes

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
2019-12-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ab542f
Contributors: Michael T Gastner; Kota Ishida
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Data set discussed in "Beyond Fortune 500: Women in a Global Network of Directors"

Zenodo
2019-11-26 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3553442
Contributors: Anna Evtushenko; Michael T. Gastner
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go-cart.io: a web application for generating contiguous cartograms

Abstracts of the ICA
2019-07-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/ica-abs-1-333-2019
Part of ISSN: 2570-2106
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Michael T. Gastner

The impact of hypocrisy on opinion formation: A dynamic model

PLOS ONE
2019-06-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218729
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; Michael Szell; Károly Takács; Máté Gulyás; Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky; Beáta Oborny
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Consensus time in a voter model with concealed and publicly expressed opinions

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
2018-06-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/aac14a
Part of ISSN: 1742-5468
Contributors: Michael T Gastner; Beáta Oborny; Máté Gulyás
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Fast flow-based algorithm for creating density-equalizing map projections

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2018-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712674115
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; Vivien Seguy; Pratyush More
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The topology of large Open Connectome networks for the human brain

Scientific Reports
2016-06-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/srep27249
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; Géza Ódor
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Network formation, statistical physics and social dynamics

2016-02-17 | Report
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Michael T. Gastner

The distribution functions of vessel calls and port connectivity in the global cargo ship network

Maritime networks: Spatial structures and time dynamics
2015-12-31 | Book chapter
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Michael T. Gastner

The Ising chain constrained to an even or odd number of positive spins

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
2015-03-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2015/03/p03004
Part of ISSN: 1742-5468
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Opinion Formation Models on a Gradient

PLoS ONE
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114088
Part of ISSN: 1932-6203
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; Nikolitsa Markou; Gunnar Pruessner; Moez Draief; Renaud Lambiotte
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How Heavy-Tailed is the Distribution of Global Cargo Ship Traffic?

2014 Tenth International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems
2014-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/sitis.2014.33
Part of ISBN: 9781479979783
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; Cesar Ducruet
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The geography and carbon footprint of mobile phone use in Cote d’Ivoire

EPJ Data Science
2014-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1140/epjds21
Part of ISSN: 2193-1127
Contributors: Vsevolod Salnikov; Daniel Schien; Hyejin Youn; Renaud Lambiotte; Michael T Gastner
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The risk of marine bioinvasion caused by global shipping

Ecology Letters
2013-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12111
Part of ISSN: 1461-023X
Contributors: H. Seebens; M. T. Gastner; B. Blasius; Franck Courchamp
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The geometry of percolation fronts in two-dimensional lattices with spatially varying densities

New Journal of Physics
2012-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/10/103019
Part of ISSN: 1367-2630
Contributors: Michael T Gastner; Beáta Oborny
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Scaling and entropy inp-median facility location along a line

Physical Review E
2011-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.036112
Part of ISSN: 1539-3755
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner
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Changes in the Gradient Percolation Transition Caused by an Allee Effect

Physical Review Letters
2011-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.128103
Part of ISSN: 0031-9007
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; Beata Oborny; Alexey B. Ryabov; Bernd Blasius
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Traffic flow in a spatial network model

Unifying Themes in Complex Systems
2010 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85081-6_40
Part of ISBN: 9783540850809
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner
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The complex network of global cargo ship movements

Journal of The Royal Society Interface
2010-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0495
Part of ISSN: 1742-5689
Contributors: P. Kaluza; A. Kolzsch; M. T. Gastner; B. Blasius
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Inefficiency in Networks with Multiple Sources and Sinks

Complex Sciences
2009 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_32
Part of ISBN: 9783642024658
Part of ISSN: 1867-8211
Contributors: Hyejin Youn; Michael T. Gastner; Hawoong Jeong
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Transition from Connected to Fragmented Vegetation across an Environmental Gradient: Scaling Laws in Ecotone Geometry

The American Naturalist
2009-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/599292
Part of ISSN: 0003-0147
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; Beata Oborny; D. K. Zimmermann; Gunnar Pruessner
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Erratum: Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks: Efficiency and Optimality Control [Phys. Rev. Lett.101, 128701 (2008)]

Physical Review Letters
2009-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.049905
Part of ISSN: 0031-9007
Contributors: Hyejin Youn; Michael T. Gastner; Hawoong Jeong
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Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks: Efficiency and Optimality Control

Physical Review Letters
2008-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.128701
Part of ISSN: 0031-9007
Contributors: Hyejin Youn; Michael T. Gastner; Hawoong Jeong
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Shape and efficiency in growing spatial distribution networks

2nd Eur. Conf. Complex Systems
2006-12-31 | Conference paper
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Optimal design of spatial distribution networks

Physical Review E
2006-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.74.016117
Part of ISSN: 1539-3755
Contributors: Michael T. Gastner; M. E. J. Newman
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Shape and efficiency in spatial distribution networks

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
2006-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2006/01/p01015
Part of ISSN: 1742-5468
Contributors: Michael T Gastner; M E J Newman
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The spatial structure of networks

The European Physical Journal B
2006-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00046-8
Part of ISSN: 1434-6028
Contributors: M. T. Gastner; M. E.J. Newman
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Spatial distributions: Density-equalizing map projections, facility location, and two-dimensional networks

University of Michigan
2005-12-31 | Dissertation or Thesis
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