2 papers
cs.CY2026
Modeling Misinformation as a Commons Problem
Vrinda Malhotra
Misinformation often harms society not just by spreading a single false belief, but by breaking down the shared trust people rely on to evaluate what is true. This paper presents a…
cs.MA2025
AgentZero++: Modeling Fear-Based Behavior
Vrinda Malhotra, Jiaman Li, Nandini Pisupati
We present AgentZero++, an agent-based model that integrates cognitive, emotional, and social mechanisms to simulate decentralized collective violence in spatially distributed syst…