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Scalable prediction of global online media news virality
Xiaoyan Lu, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
News reports shape the public perception of the critical social, political and economical events around the world. Yet, the way in which emergent phenomena are reported in the news…
Opinion Formation Threshold Estimates from Different Combinations of Social Media Data-Types
Derrik E. Asher, Justine Caylor, Casey Doyle +3
Passive consumption of a quantifiable amount of social media information related to a topic can cause individuals to form opinions. If a substantial amount of these individuals are…
Evolution of Threats in the Global Risk Network
Xiang Niu, Alaa Moussawi, Gyorgy Korniss +1
With a steadily growing population and rapid advancements in technology, the global economy is increasing in size and complexity. This growth exacerbates global vulnerabilities and…
Probing Limits of Information Spread with Sequential Seeding
Jaroslaw Jankowski, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Przemyslaw Kazienko +2
We consider here information spread which propagates with certain probability from nodes just activated to their not yet activated neighbors. Diffusion cascades can be triggered by…
Social Networks through the Prism of Cognition
Radosław Michalski, Bolesław K. Szymański, Przemysław Kazienko +3
Human relations are driven by social events-people interact, exchange information, share knowledge and emotions, and gather news from mass media. These events leave traces in human…
Influence Maximization for Fixed Heterogeneous Thresholds
Panagiotis D. Karampourniotis, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Gyorgy Korniss
Influence Maximization is a NP-hard problem of selecting the optimal set of influencers in a network. Here, we propose two new approaches to influence maximization based on two ver…
The Age of Social Sensing
Dong Wang, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Tarek Abdelzaher +2
Online social media, such as Twitter and Instagram, democratized information broadcast, allowing anyone to share information about themselves and their surroundings at an unprecede…
Entropy Measures of Human Communication Dynamics
Marcin Kulisiewicz, Przemysław Kazienko, Bolesław K. Szymański +1
Human communication is commonly represented as a temporal social network, and evaluated in terms of its uniqueness. We propose a set of new entropy-based measures for human communi…