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Modeling Dynamical Influence in Human Interaction Patterns
Wei Pan, Manuel Cebrian, Wen Dong +3
How can we model influence between individuals in a social system, even when the network of interactions is unknown? In this article, we review the literature on the "influence mod…
Time Critical Social Mobilization: The DARPA Network Challenge Winning Strategy
Galen Pickard, Iyad Rahwan, Wei Pan +4
It is now commonplace to see the Web as a platform that can harness the collective abilities of large numbers of people to accomplish tasks with unprecedented speed, accuracy and s…
Patterns of Individual Shopping Behavior
Coco Krumme, Manuel Cebrian, Alex Pentland
Much of economic theory is built on observations of aggregate, rather than individual, behavior. Here, we present novel findings on human shopping patterns at the resolution of a s…
Modeling Corporate Epidemiology
Benjamin Waber, Ellen Pollock, Manuel Cebrian +3
Corporate responses to illness is currently an ad-hoc, subjective process that has little basis in data on how disease actually spreads at the workplace. Additionally, many studies…
Social Networks and Spin Glasses
Scott Kirkpatrick, Alex Kulakovsky, Manuel Cebrian +1
The networks formed from the links between telephones observed in a month's call detail records (CDRs) in the UK are analyzed, looking for the characteristics thought to identify a…