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Contact Tracing: Computational Bounds, Limitations and Implications
Quyu Kong, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Ivan Dotu +1
Contact tracing has been extensively studied from different perspectives in recent years. However, there is no clear indication of why this intervention has proven effective in som…
Social Diffusion Sources Can Escape Detection
Marcin Waniek, Manuel Cebrian, Petter Holme +1
Influencing (and being influenced by) others through social networks is fundamental to all human societies. Whether this happens through the diffusion of rumors, opinions, or virus…
Towards a new social laboratory: An experimental study of search through community participation at Burning Man
Ziv Epstein, Micah Epstein, Christian Almenar +6
The "small world phenomenon," popularized by Stanley Milgram, suggests that individuals from across a social network are connected via a short path of mutual friends and can levera…
MemeSequencer: Sparse Matching for Embedding Image Macros
Abhimanyu Dubey, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian +1
The analysis of the creation, mutation, and propagation of social media content on the Internet is an essential problem in computational social science, affecting areas ranging fro…
Crisis Communication Patterns in Social Media during Hurricane Sandy
Arif Mohaimin Sadri, Samiul Hasan, Satish V. Ukkusuri +1
Hurricane Sandy was one of the deadliest and costliest of hurricanes over the past few decades. Many states experienced significant power outage, however many people used social me…
Investigating the potential of social network data for transport demand models
Michael A. B. van Eggermond, Haohui Chen, Alexander Erath +1
Location-based social network data offers the promise of collecting the data from a large base of users over a longer span of time at negligible cost. While several studies have ap…