PLOS Complex Systems

2024 - 2026

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Volume 3, issue 3, 2026

Fast algorithms to improve fair information access in networks pp. 1-17

Dennis Robert Windham, Caroline J Wendt, Alex Crane, Madelyn J Warr, Freda Shi, Sorelle A Friedler, Blair D Sullivan and Aaron Clauset

Towards a foundational platform for generative agents in simulated city environment pp. 1-26

Fengli Xu, Jun Zhang, Chen Gao, Peijie Liu, Jie Feng and Yong Li

Inference and training efficiency in pruned multilayer perceptron networks pp. 1-28

Amirhossein Douzandeh Zenoozi, Laura Erhan, Antonio Liotta and Lucia Cavallaro

Volume 3, issue 2, 2026

Weakly supervised contrastive representation learning to encode narrative viewpoint of COVID-19 tweets pp. 1-20

Kin Wai Ng, Nathan Wendt, Jasmine Eshun and Emily Saldanha

A green vehicle routing methodology for assessing optimal fleet mix and cost/emissions tradeoffs given environmental policy incentives pp. 1-25

Griffin M Wilson and Richard T Stone

Research university assortativity conditions the integration of regional innovation systems pp. 1-30

Alexander Michael Petersen and Andrea Montaño Ramirez

Can adversarial attacks by large language models be attributed? pp. 1-21

Manuel Cebrian, Andres Abeliuk and Jan Arne Telle

Volume 3, issue 1, 2026

A typology of rules for knowledge exchange in higher-order interactions pp. 1-19

Anna Sisk, Matthew J Silk, Nakeya D Williams and Nina H Fefferman

A generalized Bayesian framework for maximizing information gain and model selection pp. 1-19

Prem Jagadeesan, Karthik Raman and Arun K Tangirala

Multiscale mobility: How the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped Mexico’s intermunicipal connectivity pp. 1-25

Issa Moussa Diop, Erika Cruz-Bonilla, Christian Wolff, Hocine Cherifi and Maribel Hernández-Rosales

A dynamic model of segregation and integration: Incorporating adaptive intolerance, media bias, and conformity into the Schelling framework pp. 1-14

Joseph D Johnson and Marisa C Eisenberg

Volume 2, issue 12, 2025

Autocratic strategies in Cournot oligopoly game pp. 1-23

Masahiko Ueda, Shoma Yagi and Genki Ichinose

Decentralized renewable energy integration in the urban energy markets: A system dynamics approach pp. 1-30

Anton Rozhkov

Reinforcement learning to develop policies for fair and productive employment: A case study on wage theft within the day-laborer community pp. 1-25

Matt Kammer-Kerwick and Evan Aldrich

Volume 2, issue 11, 2025

Food purchase data reveals the locations of London’s ‘food deserts’ pp. 1-23

Tayla P Broadbridge, J Edward F Green, Simon P Preston, Nabil T Fadai and John Maclean

Volume 2, issue 10, 2025

Neural complexity in preterm infants is predicted by developmental variables pp. 1-18

Lorenzo Semeia, Amer Zaylaa, Dimitrios Metaxas, Mina Nourhashemi, Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh, Andreas L Birkenfeld, Katrin Sippel, Pedro A M Mediano, Hubert Preissl, Fabrice Wallois and Joel Frohlich

Inferring leader-follower behavior from presence data in the marine environment: A case study on Reef Manta Rays pp. 1-18

Juan Fernández-Gracia, Jorge P Rodríguez, Lauren R Peel, Konstantin Klemm, Mark G Meekan and Víctor M Eguíluz

FastEnsemble: Scalable ensemble clustering on large networks pp. 1-29

Yasamin Tabatabaee, Eleanor Wedell, Minhyuk Park and Tandy Warnow

Volume 2, issue 9, 2025

A spatial hypergraph model to smoothly interpolate between pairwise graphs and hypergraphs to study higher-order structures pp. 1-27

Omar Eldaghar, Yu Zhu and David Gleich

Troika algorithm: Approximate optimization for accurate clique partitioning and clustering of weighted networks pp. 1-28

Samin Aref and Boris Ng

Volume 2, issue 8, 2025

Determining graphlet explanations for machine learning on graphs pp. 1-23

Bettina Soós, Gonzalo Nápoles, Pieter Spronck and Çiçek Güven

Volatility-informed SPY forecasting: From CGR-SPY analysis to DLSTM prediction pp. 1-16

Hong Cao, Hao Chen, Yulong Lian and Hong-Kun Zhang

Diachronic data analysis supports and refines conceptual metaphor theory pp. 1-26

Marie Teich, Wilmer Leal and Jürgen Jost

Volume 2, issue 7, 2025

The complexity of problem-solving human social systems: Structural vs dynamic complexity pp. 1-22

Michael Roos

Identifying stable communities in Hi-C using multifractal network modularity pp. 1-17

Lucas Hedström, Antón Carcedo and Ludvig Lizana

Connect-while-in-range: Modelling the impact of spatial constraints on dynamic network structures pp. 1-19

Niek Kerssies, Jose Segovia-Martin and James Winters

Evaluating brain electroencephalogram signal dynamics across cognitive disorders using information geometry pp. 1-25

Heng Jie Choong, Eun-jin Kim and Fei He

Volume 2, issue 6, 2025

Persistence of wealth inequality from network effects pp. 1-18

Edoardo F Naggi, Simone Rossini, José S Andrade, Caterina AM La Porta and Stefano Zapperi

Informing pandemic intervention strategies through coupled contact tracing and network node prioritization pp. 1-16

Adithya Narayanan, Sarah Muldoon, Matthew Jehrio and Rachael Hageman Blair

Efficient and accurate simulation of infectious diseases on adaptive networks pp. 1-21

Nils Gubela and Max von Kleist

Volume 2, issue 5, 2025

Centrality in complex networks under incomplete data pp. 1-22

Sergey Shvydun

Energy landscape analysis based on the Ising model: Tutorial review pp. 1-35

Naoki Masuda, Saiful Islam, Si Thu Aung and Takamitsu Watanabe

Volume 2, issue 4, 2025

Environmental variability promotes the evolution of cooperation among geographically dispersed groups on dynamic networks pp. 1-15

Masaaki Inaba and Eizo Akiyama

Complex economics of simple periodic systems pp. 1-14

Petri P Kärenlampi

Evolution of conditional cooperation in a spatial public goods game pp. 1-13

Francesca Federico, Raksha Balakrishna and Marco A Janssen

How local spectral gaps regulate the multistability of Turing patterns on graphs pp. 1-17

Selim Haj Ali and Marc-Thorsten Hütt

Volume 2, issue 3, 2025

Memory signatures in path curvature of self-avoidant model particles are revealed by time delayed self mutual information pp. 1-17

Katherine Daftari and Katherine A Newhall

Volume 2, issue 2, 2025

Patterns of co-occurrent skills in UK job adverts pp. 1-25

Zhaolu Liu, Jonathan M Clarke, Bertha Rohenkohl and Mauricio Barahona

Just in time vs. all in sync: An analysis of two types of synchronization in a minimal model of machine activity in industrial production pp. 1-24

Sanghita Bose, Annick Lesne, Julia Arlinghaus and Marc-Thorsten Hütt

Volume 2, issue 1, 2025

Urban scaling with censored data pp. 1-22

Inês Figueira, Rayan Succar, Roni Barak Ventura and Maurizio Porfiri

Difficult control is related to instability in biologically inspired Boolean networks pp. 1-20

Bryan C Daniels and Enrico Borriello

Volume 1, issue 4, 2024

ALAAMEE: Open-source software for fitting autologistic actor attribute models pp. 1-32

Alex Stivala, Peng Wang and Alessandro Lomi

Vertex clustering in diverse dynamic networks pp. 1-29

Devavrat Vivek Dabke and Olga Dorabiala

Truth set size prediction by Newton’s cooling law pp. 1-16

Yuji Fujita, Noritaka Usami, Toshiaki Fujii and Hiroaki Nagai

Volume 1, issue 3, 2024

Leveraging mathematical modeling framework to guide regimen strategy for phage therapy pp. 1-31

Zhiyuan Yu, Tiffany Luong, Selenne Banuelos, Andrew Sue, Hwayeon Ryu, Rebecca Segal, Dwayne R Roach and Qimin Huang

Well-connectedness and community detection pp. 1-25

Minhyuk Park, Yasamin Tabatabaee, Vikram Ramavarapu, Baqiao Liu, Vidya Kamath Pailodi, Rajiv Ramachandran, Dmitriy Korobskiy, Fabio Ayres, George Chacko and Tandy Warnow

Autonomous and ubiquitous in-node learning algorithms of active directed graphs and its storage behavior pp. 1-33

Hui Wei, Fushun Li and Weihua Miao

Volume 1, issue 2, 2024

Geometric separability of mesoscale patterns in embedding representation and visualization of multidimensional data and complex networks pp. 1-28

Aldo Acevedo, Yue Wu, Fabio Lorenzo Traversa and Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

Pattern detection in bipartite networks: A review of terminology, applications, and methods pp. 1-34

Zachary P Neal, Annabell Cadieux, Diego Garlaschelli, Nicholas J Gotelli, Fabio Saracco, Tiziano Squartini, Shade T Shutters, Werner Ulrich, Guanyang Wang and Giovanni Strona

Moving beyond simulation and learning: Unveiling the potential of complexity data science pp. 1-4

Frank Emmert-Streib, Hocine Cherifi, Stuart Kauffman and Olli Yli-Harja

Axioms for clustering simple unweighted graphs: No impossibility result pp. 1-27

James Willson and Tandy Warnow

Volume 1, issue 1, 2024

Emergence of economic and social disparities through competitive gift-giving pp. 1-16

Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko

How position in the network determines the fate of lexical innovations on Twitter pp. 1-20

Louise Tarrade, Jean-Pierre Chevrot and Jean-Philippe Magué

Assembly Theory is an approximation to algorithmic complexity based on LZ compression that does not explain selection or evolution pp. 1-20

Felipe S Abrahão, Santiago Hernández-Orozco, Narsis A Kiani, Jesper Tegnér and Hector Zenil

Emergence of an unpredictable evolution in a spatial prisoner’s dilemma via a player’s multiple perspectives pp. 1-12

Tomoko Sakiyama and Ken’ichi Kojo