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Detecting Bots and Assessing Their Impact in Social Networks
Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards, David Scott Hunter, Zakaria el Hjouji +1
Online social networks are often subject to influence campaigns by malicious actors through the use of automated accounts known as bots. We consider the problem of detecting bots i…
Optimizing Opinions with Stubborn Agents
D. Scott Hunter, Tauhid Zaman
We consider the problem of optimizing the placement of stubborn agents in a social network in order to maximally influence the population. We assume the network contains stubborn u…
Picking Winners: A Data Driven Approach to Evaluating the Quality of Startup Companies
David Scott Hunter, Ajay Saini, Tauhid Zaman
We consider the problem of evaluating the quality of startup companies. This can be quite challenging due to the rarity of successful startup companies and the complexity of factor…
Picking Winners in Daily Fantasy Sports Using Integer Programming
David Scott Hunter, Juan Pablo Vielma, Tauhid Zaman
We consider the problem of selecting a portfolio of entries of fixed cardinality for contests with top-heavy payoff structures, i.e. most of the winnings go to the top-ranked entri…