Publications

Publications

Michael T. Gastner and Beáta Oborny
The geometry of percolation fronts in two-dimensional lattices with spatially varying densities
New Journal of Physics 14, 103019 (2012). (open access article)

Michael T. Gastner
Scaling and entropy in p-median facility location along a line
Physical Review E 84, 036112 (2011). (Preprint available)

Michael T. Gastner, Beata Oborny, Alexey B. Ryabov, and Bernd Blasius
Changes in the gradient percolation transition caused by an Allee effect
Physical Review Letters 106, 128103 (2011). (Preprint available , supplementary material can be downloaded here.)

Pablo Kaluza, Andrea Kölzsch, Michael T. Gastner, and Bernd Blasius
The complex network of global cargo ship movements
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 7, 1093-1103 (2010). (Preprint available)

Michael T. Gastner
Traffic flow in a spatial network model
in A. A. Minai, D. Braha, and Y. Bar-Yam (eds.): Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, vol. 6:
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Complex Systems, Springer, Berlin (2010).

Michael T. Gastner, Beata Oborny, D. K. Zimmermann, and Gunnar Pruessner
Transition from connected to fragmented vegetation across an environmental gradient: scaling laws in ecotone geometry
The American Naturalist, 174, E23-E39 (2009). (available as free E-Article)

Hyejin Youn, Michael T. Gastner, and Hawoong Jeong
Inefficiency in networks with multiple sources and sinks
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 4(1), 334-338 (2009).

Hyejin Youn, Michael T. Gastner, and Hawoong Jeong
The price of anarchy in transportation networks: efficiency and optimality control
Physical Review Letters 101, 128701 (2008). (Preprint available)

Michael T. Gastner
Shape and efficiency in growing spatial distribution networks
Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Complex Systems (2006).

Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman
Optimal design of spatial distribution networks
Physical Review E 74, 016117 (2006). (Preprint available)

Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman
Shape and efficiency in spatial distribution networks
Journal of Statistical Mechanics, P01015 (2006). (Preprint available)

Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman
The spatial structure of networks
European Physical Journal B 49, 247-252 (2006). (Preprint available)

Michael T. Gastner
Spatial distributions: density-equalizing map projections, facility location, and two-dimensional networks
Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005)
(with downsampled figures, high-resolution available upon request)

Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman
Density-equalizing map projections: Diffusion-based algorithm and applications
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on GeoComputation (2005)

M. T. Gastner, C. R. Shalizi, and M. E. J. Newman
Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results
Advances in Complex Systems, 8, 117-123 (2005). (Preprint available)

Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman
Diffusion-based method for producing density-equalizing maps
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 101, 7499-7504 (2004).