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Time Critical Social Mobilization: The DARPA Network Challenge Winning Strategy
Galen Pickard, Iyad Rahwan, Wei Pan +4
It is now commonplace to see the Web as a platform that can harness the collective abilities of large numbers of people to accomplish tasks with unprecedented speed, accuracy and s…
Modeling Corporate Epidemiology
Benjamin Waber, Ellen Pollock, Manuel Cebrian +3
Corporate responses to illness is currently an ad-hoc, subjective process that has little basis in data on how disease actually spreads at the workplace. Additionally, many studies…
Common group dynamic drives modern epidemics across social, financial and biological domains
Zhenyuan Zhao, Juan Pablo Calderón, Chen Xu +5
We show that qualitatively different epidemic-like processes from distinct societal domains (finance, social and commercial blockbusters, epidemiology) can be quantitatively unders…
New Power Law Signature of Media Exposure in Human Response Waiting Time Distributions
Riley Crane, Frank Schweitzer, Didier Sornette
We study the humanitarian response to the destruction brought by the tsunami generated by the Sumatra earthquake of December 26, 2004, as measured by donations, and find that it de…
Robust dynamic classes revealed by measuring the response function of a social system
R. Crane, D. Sornette
We study the relaxation response of a social system after endogenous and exogenous bursts of activity using the time-series of daily views for nearly 5 million videos on YouTube. W…
The Donation-Payment Gift Card Concept: how to give twice with one card
R. Crane, J. V. Escobar-Sotomayor, D. Sornette
Standard economic theory, starting with Adam Smith's invisible hand, holds that those who trade for their own selfish motives of maximizing their private preferences may contribute…