5 papers
Percolation framework reveals limits of privacy in Conspiracy, Dark Web, and Blockchain networks
Louis M Shekhtman, Alon Sela, Shlomo Havlin
We consider the privacy of interactions between individuals in a network. For many networks, while nodes are anonymous to outside observers, the existence of a link between individ…
Optimal COVID-19 infection spread under low temperature, dry air, and low UV radiation
Eitan Asher, Yosef Ashkenazy, Shlomo Havlin +1
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, is currently spreading rapidly throughout the world, causing many deaths and severe economic damage. It is believ…
Spatio-temporal propagation of COVID-19 pandemics
Bnaya Gross, Zhiguo Zheng, Shiyan Liu +5
The new coronavirus known as COVID-19 is spread world-wide since December 2019. Without any vaccination or medicine, the means of controlling it are limited to quarantine and socia…
Increasing the Flow of Rumors in Social Networks by Spreading Groups
Alon Sela, Orit Milo-Cohen, Irad Ben-Gal +1
The paper addresses a method for spreading messages in social networks through an initial acceleration by Spreading Groups. These groups start the spread which eventually reaches a…
Latent Viral Marketing, Concepts and Control Methods
Alon Sela, Dmitri Goldenberg, Irad Ben-Gal +1
Numerus works that study the spread of information in social networks include a spreading mechanism in which a set of nodes is initially infected (i.e. seeded), followed by a viral…