I am interested in ideas falling under the broad area of complex systems. Typically this means understanding how broad patterns emerge from the simple interactions of many small parts. I discuss my general motivation on the Netplexity About page. My technical starting point is statistical physics but I apply these techniques to a much broader range of systems than encountered in traditional physics courses.
In particular, the properties of Complex Networks, such as the six degrees of separation, intrigue me. From a theoretical perspective, I am interested in how we need to change the way we look at networks when there are strong constraints. These could be internal constraints creating groups in networks, the problem of community detection in networks, or it could be the behaviour of networks constrained by time and networks constrained by space.
I look at many different areas but I am particularly interested in social systems such as bibliometrics (citation patterns and related problems), cultural transmission and archaeology.
- A general introduction to networks
- Why do scale free networks appear so often?
- Network Rewiring and related problems
- Community Structure, Line Graphs and Edge Partitions, Clique Graphs
- Publication Networks
- Archaeology and Complex Networks
Tim Evans’ Research Papers and Other Material
My ORCID identifier is http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3501-6486 and the Orcid homepage for Tim Evans should give a pretty comprehensive list of both research papers and other grey literature such as preprints, copies of talks and datasets. Since my name is fairly common, I curate most of the lists given here but searching for my name alone will turn up many more papers. See my comments on name disambiguation for Tim Evans.
Almost all my publications, unless they are on archaeology, can be found on the Tim Evans arXiv homepage. The Tim Evans Google Scholar page has most of the articles Google scholar finds for me which includes more of the archaeology papers. You can find many talks and datasets by Tim Evans on figshare. A limited list of published papers by Tim Evans is on my official Imperial web pages. Likewise, the commercial databases such as Dimensions, Scopus and Web of Science, all have many of my papers listed.