Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 Projects

Participants : Stefan Thurner, Vito Latora, Albert Diaz-Guilera, Maxi San Miguel, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Murolesi, Mario Chavez [Correspondant] .

• Project acronym: LASAGNE

• Project title: multi-LAyer SpAtiotemporal Generalized NEtworks

• Founded in 2012

• Amount: 1.6M€

• Coordinator: Stefan Thurner

• Other partners: Medical University of Vienna, Queen Mary University of London, Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat de les Illes Balears,University of Cambridge, University of Birmingham.

• Abstract: The aim of the LASAGNE project is to provide a novel and coherent theoretical framework for analysing and modelling dynamic and multi-layer networks in terms of multi-graphs embedded in space and time. To do this, we will treat time, space and the nature of interactions not as additional dimensions of the problem, but as natural, inherent components of the very same generalised network description. The theory will be validated on real-world applications involving large and heterogeneous data sets of brain networks, on- and off-line social systems, healthcare systems, and transportation flows in cities. The LASAGNE project will provide new quantitative opportunities in different fields, ranging from the prediction of pathologies to the diffusion of ideas and trends in societies, and for the management of socio-technological systems.