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Understanding the Progression of Educational Topics via Semantic Matching
Tamador Alkhidir, Edmond Awad, Aamena Alshamsi
Education systems are dynamically changing to accommodate technological advances, industrial and societal needs, and to enhance students' learning journeys. Curriculum specialists…
Strategic Attack & Defense in Security Diffusion Games
Marcin Waniek, Tomasz P. Michalak, Aamena Alshamsi
Security games model the confrontation between a defender protecting a set of targets and an attacker who tries to capture them. A variant of these games assumes security interdepe…
Computational Aspects of Optimal Strategic Network Diffusion
Marcin Waniek, Khaled Elbassioni, Flavio L. Pinheiro +2
Diffusion on complex networks is often modeled as a stochastic process. Yet, recent work on strategic diffusion emphasizes the decision power of agents and treats diffusion as a st…
Explainable AI as a Social Microscope: A Case Study on Academic Performance
Anahit Sargsyan, Areg Karapetyan, Wei Lee Woon +1
Academic performance is perceived as a product of complex interactions between students' overall experience, personal characteristics and upbringing. Data science techniques, most…
Shooting High or Low: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?
Flávio L. Pinheiro, Aamena Alshamsi, Dominik Hartmann +2
Countries tend to diversify their exports by entering products that are related to their current exports. Yet this average behavior is not representative of every diversification p…
Relatedness, Knowledge Diffusion, and the Evolution of Bilateral Trade
Bogang Jun, Aamena Alshamsi, Jian Gao +1
During the last decades two important contributions have reshaped our understanding of international trade. First, countries trade more with those with whom they share history, lan…
Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas
Aamena Alshamsi, Flavio L. Pinheiro, Cesar A. Hidalgo
Countries and cities are likely to enter economic activities that are related to those that are already present in them. Yet, while these path dependencies are universally acknowle…
Beyond Contagion: Reality Mining Reveals Complex Patterns of Social Influence
Aamena Alshamsi, Fabio Pianesi, Bruno Lepri +2
Contagion, a concept from epidemiology, has long been used to characterize social influence on people's behavior and affective (emotional) states. While it has revealed many useful…