2 papers
cs.DS2021
The Value of Excess Supply in Spatial Matching Markets
Mohammad Akbarpour, Yeganeh Alimohammadi, Shengwu Li +1
We study dynamic matching in a spatial setting. Drivers are distributed at random on some interval. Riders arrive in some (possibly adversarial) order at randomly drawn points. The…
physics.soc-ph2016
Diffusion in Networks and the Unexpected Virtue of Burstiness
Mohammad Akbarpour, Matthew O. Jackson
Whether an idea, information, infection, or innovation diffuses throughout a society depends not only on the structure of the network of interactions, but also on the timing of tho…