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Social media fingerprints of unemployment
Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Manuel Cebrian +1
Recent wide-spread adoption of electronic and pervasive technologies has enabled the study of human behavior at an unprecedented level, uncovering universal patterns underlying hum…
Optimizing Expected Utility in a Multinomial Logit Model with Position Bias and Social Influence
Andres Abeliuk, Gerardo Berbeglia, Manuel Cebrian +1
Motivated by applications in retail, online advertising, and cultural markets, this paper studies how to find the optimal assortment and positioning of products subject to a capaci…
Measuring and Optimizing Cultural Markets
Andres Abeliuk, Gerardo Berbeglia, Manuel Cebrian +1
Social influence has been shown to create significant unpredictability in cultural markets, providing one potential explanation why experts routinely fail at predicting commercial…
Performance of Social Network Sensors During Hurricane Sandy
Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Esteban Moro +2
Information flow during catastrophic events is a critical aspect of disaster management. Modern communication platforms, in particular online social networks, provide an opportunit…
Iterated crowdsourcing dilemma game
Koji Oishi, Manuel Cebrian, Andres Abeliuk +1
The Internet has enabled the emergence of collective problem solving, also known as crowdsourcing, as a viable option for solving complex tasks. However, the openness of crowdsourc…
Efficient detection of contagious outbreaks in massive metropolitan encounter networks
Lijun Sun, Kay W. Axhausen, Der-Horng Lee +1
Physical contact remains difficult to trace in large metropolitan networks, though it is a key vehicle for the transmission of contagious outbreaks. Co-presence encounters during d…