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Analysis of the high dimensional naming game with committed minorities
William Pickering, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Chjan Lim
The naming game has become an archetype for linguistic evolution and mathematical social behavioral analysis. In the model presented here, there are individuals and words.…
Information Cascades in Feed-based Networks of Users with Limited Attention
Sameet Sreenivasan, Kevin S. Chan, Ananthram Swami +2
We build a model of information cascades on feed-based networks, taking into account the finite attention span of users, message generation rates and message forwarding rates. Usin…
Community Detection via Maximization of Modularity and Its Variants
Mingming Chen, Konstantin Kuzmin, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
In this paper, we first discuss the definition of modularity (Q) used as a metric for community quality and then we review the modularity maximization approaches which were used fo…
Competing Effects of Social Balance and Influence
P. Singh, S. Sreenivasan, B. K. Szymanski +1
We study a three-state (leftist, rightist, centrist) model that couples the dynamics of social balance with an external deradicalizing field. The mean-field analysis shows that the…
The Impact of Heterogeneous Thresholds on Social Contagion with Multiple Initiators
Panagiotis D. Karampourniotis, Sameet Sreenivasan, Boleslaw K. Szymanski +1
The threshold model is a simple but classic model of contagion spreading in complex social systems. To capture the complex nature of social influencing we investigate numerically a…
An Analysis of the Matching Hypothesis in Networks
Tao Jia, Robert F. Spivey, Boleslaw Szymanski +1
The matching hypothesis in social psychology claims that people are more likely to form a committed relationship with someone equally attractive. Previous works on stochastic model…