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Publications: DR Athen Ma

( 2025 ) . Resilience of science after austerity . PNAS Nexus vol. 4 , ( 6 ) Article pgaf122 ,
( 2023 ) . The importance of quality in austere times: University competitiveness\n and grant income .
Sun Y, Livan G, Ma A, Latora V ( 2021 ) . Interdisciplinary researchers attain better performance in funding .
( 2021 ) . Ecological plasticity governs ecosystem services in multilayer networks . Communications Biology vol. 4 , ( 1 ) Article 75 ,
Sun Y, Livan G, Ma A, Latora V ( 2021 ) . Interdisciplinary researchers attain better performance in funding . CoRR vol. abs/2104.13091 ,
( 2018 ) . Ecological networks reveal resilience of agro-ecosystems to changes in farming management . Nature Ecology & Evolution vol. 3 , ( 2 ) 260 - 264 .
( 2018 ) . A Replicated Network Approach to ‘Big Data’ in Ecology . 225 - 264 .
( 2017 ) . Area-corrected species richness patterns of vascular plants along a tropical elevational gradient . Journal of Mountain Science vol. 14 , ( 4 ) 694 - 704 .
( 2017 ) . ALTITUDINAL PATTERNS OF PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS IN THE HONGHE REGION OF CHINA . PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY vol. 49 , ( 3 ) 1039 - 1048 .
( 2016 ) . Weighting and indirect effects identify keystone species in food webs . Ecology Letters vol. 19 , ( 9 ) 1032 - 1040 .
( 2016 ) . Drought rewires the cores of food webs . Nature Climate Change vol. 6 , ( 9 ) 875 - 878 .
( 2016 ) . Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision . Trends in Ecology & Evolution vol. 31 , ( 2 ) 105 - 115 .
( 2016 ) . Recovery and Nonrecovery of Freshwater Food Webs from the Effects of Acidification . Advances in Ecological Research , Elsevier
( 2015 ) . Joining the dots: An automated method for constructing food webs from compendia of published interactions . Food Webs vol. 5 , 11 - 20 .
( 2015 ) . Anatomy of funded research in science . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 112 , ( 48 ) 14760 - 14765 .
( 2015 ) . Using a Smart City IoT to Incentivise and Target Shifts in Mobility Behaviour—Is It a Piece of Pie? . Sensors vol. 15 , ( 6 ) 13069 - 13096 .
Ma A, Mondragon RJ, Latora V ( 2015 ) . Funding shapes the anatomy of scientific research .
( 2015 ) . Rich-Cores in Networks . PLOS ONE vol. 10 , ( 3 ) e0119678 - e0119678 .
( 2015 ) . Short-Term Traffic Volume Prediction for Sustainable Transportation in an Urban Area . Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering vol. 29 , ( 2 ) Article 04014036 ,
( 2015 ) . 10 Years Later . Advances in Ecological Research , Elsevier
( 2015 ) . Chapter One 10 Years Later Revisiting Priorities for Science and Society a Decade After the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment . Ecosystem Services - From Biodiversity to Society, Part 1 , vol. 53 , Elsevier
( 2014 ) . FORUM: Ecological networks: the missing links in biomonitoring science . Journal of Applied Ecology vol. 51 , ( 5 ) 1444 - 1449 .
( 2014 ) . FORUM Ecological networks: the missing links in biomonitoring science . JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY vol. 51 , ( 5 ) 1444 - 1449 .
( 2013 ) . Social Achievement and Centrality in MathOverflow . 27 - 38 .
( 2012 ) . A Method to Evaluate the Energy-Efficiency of Wide-Area Location Determination Techniques Used by Smartphones . 2012 IEEE 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering . Conference: 2012 IEEE 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) from: 05/12/2012 to: 07/12/2012 , 326 - 333 .
( 2012 ) . Evaluation of network robustness using a node tearing algorithm . Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications vol. 391 , ( 24 ) 6674 - 6681 .
( 2012 ) . Improving the Energy-Efficiency of GPS Based Location Sensing Smartphone Applications . 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications . Conference: 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) from: 25/06/2012 to: 27/06/2012 ,
( 2012 ) . Beyond Centrality - Finding vulnerabilities in complex networks . Conference: NetSci ( Evanston, Il, USA ) from: 18/06/2012 to: 22/06/2012 ,
( 2011 ) . Efficient Big Brother networks . 2011 IEEE EUROCON - International Conference on Computer as a Tool . Conference: IEEE EUROCON 2011 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool from: 27/04/2011 to: 29/04/2011 , 1 - 4 .
( 2010 ) . K-means based clustering on mobile usage for social network analysis purpose . Proc 6th Intl Conference on Advanced Information Management and Service Ims2010 with Icmia2010 2nd International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications . 223 - 228 .
( 2010 ) . Bluetooth Indoor Positioning using RSSI and Least Square\nEstimation . Conference: International Conference on Future Computer and Communication ( Shanghai, China ) from: 09/2010
( 2009 ) . Intelligent resource optimisation using semi-smart antennas in LTE OFDMA systems . 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Technology and Applications . Conference: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Technology and Applications (ICCTA) from: 16/10/2009 to: 18/10/2009 , 173 - 179 .
( 2009 ) . A Simulation Package for Hot-Spot Traffic Relief in WCDMA Networks . 2009 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing . Conference: 2009 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM) from: 24/09/2009 to: 26/09/2009 , 1 - 5 .
( 2009 ) . Application of the generalised ballot theorem for evaluation of performance in packet buffers with non-first in first out scheduling . IET Communications vol. 3 , ( 6 ) 933 - 944 .
( 2009 ) . Using co-presence communities to enhance social recommendation . 2009 Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services . Conference: 2009 Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS) from: 02/02/2009 to: 04/02/2009 , 169 - 172 .
( 2009 ) . Blue Danger: Live Action Gaming Over Bluetooth . 2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference . Conference: 2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) from: 10/01/2009 to: 13/01/2009 , 1 - 5 .
( 2009 ) . Digging Friendship: Paper Recommendation in Social Networks . Conference: Proceedings of Networking & Electronic Commerce Research Conference ( Lake Garda, Italy ) from: 2009
( 2008 ) . Anomalous Usage in Web Applications . Conference: NAEC ( Lake Garda, Italy ) from: 09/2008
( 2007 ) . A simulation package for hot-spot traffic relief in WCDMA networks . DYNAMICS OF CONTINUOUS DISCRETE AND IMPULSIVE SYSTEMS-SERIES B-APPLICATIONS & ALGORITHMS . vol. 14 , 802 - 806 .
( 2006 ) . A Multi-agent Based Intelligent Wireless Passenger Support system . Conference: Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC) ( Lake Garda, Italy ) from: 10/2006
( 2006 ) . Agent Based Cooperation Control over Wireless LAN networks with Semi-Smart Antennas’, IASTED Int’l Conference on Networks and Communication Systems (NCS) . Conference: IASTED Int’l Conference on Networks and Communication Systems (NCS) ( Chiang Mai, Thailand ) from: 29/03/2006 to: 31/03/2006 ,
( 2006 ) . An Agent-based Passenger Support System over Heterogeneous Wireless Infrastructures in an Airport Environment . Conference: IASTED International Conference on Networks and Communication Systems (NCS) ( Chiang Mai, Thailand ) from: 29/03/2006 to: 31/03/2006 ,
( 2006 ) . Cooperative control of WCDMA system under geographically congested situations . Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology . 295 - 299 .
( 2006 ) . IEEE 802.11 WLAN load balancing using adaptive antennas and cooperative controls . IET International Conference on Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks Proceedings (ICWMMN 2006) . Conference: IET International Conference on Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks Proceedings (ICWMMN 2006) vol. 2006 , 136 - 136 .
( 2005 ) . Fast, stable simulation of power-law packet traffic using concatenated acceleration techniques . IEE Proceedings - Communications vol. 152 , ( 4 ) 420 - 420 .
( 2004 ) . An agent-based system for supporting enhanced services over wireless infrastructures . Conference: CCCT'04 ( Austin, Texas, USA ) from: 08/2004
( 2003 ) . Aggregation technique for networks with power law traffic and application to accelerated simulation . IEE PROCEEDINGS-COMMUNICATIONS vol. 150 , ( 3 ) 177 - 183 .
( 2002 ) . Accelerated simulation modelling of Power-law traffic via aggregation . Proceeding of the International Conference on Telecommunications . vol. 1 , 1076 - 1080 .
( 2002 ) . Measurement-based queue length distribution estimation for power-law traffic . Electronics Letters vol. 38 , ( 24 ) 1608 - 1610 .
( 2002 ) . Hybrid technique for analysis of multiplexed power-law traffic in broadband networks . Electronics Letters vol. 38 , ( 6 ) 295 - 297 .
( 2002 ) . Efficient simulation modelling for long range dependent traffic . Conference: RESIM’02 ( Madrid, Spain ) from: 04/2002
( 2001 ) . A fast simulation method for modelling IP networks . Conference: 17th UKTS ( Dublin, Ireland ) from: 05/2001
( 2000 ) . Design rules and equivalent capacity for bufferingof Pareto source . Electronics Letters vol. 36 , ( 15 ) 1274 - 1275 .
( 2000 ) . Accurate results for traffic engineering in the presence of LRD . Conference: 16th UKTS ( Harlow, Essex UK ) from: 05/2000