15 papers
Memorial for Dr. Erik Bollt
Scott Bollt, Mario di Bernardo, Mario DiBernardo +5
In this paper, we give a memorial tribute to Prof. Erik M. Bollt (1967--2025).
Drift Behavior in a Bounded-Confidence Opinion Model with Media Influence
Oliver Zheng, Mason A. Porter
People's opinions can change both from their interactions with each other and from their interactions with media sources. Bounded-confidence models (BCMs) of opinion dynamics provi…
A Network-Based Measure of Cosponsorship Influence on Bill Passing in the United States House of Representatives
Sarah Sotoudeh, Mason A. Porter, Sanjukta Krishnagopal
Each year, the United States Congress considers thousands of legislative proposals to select bills to present to the US President to sign into law. Naturally, the decision processe…
An Approximate-Master-Equation Formulation of the Watts Threshold Model on Hypergraphs
Leah A. Keating, Kwang-Il Goh, Mason A. Porter
In traditional models of behavioral or opinion dynamics on social networks, researchers suppose that all interactions occur between pairs of individuals. However, in reality, socia…
Community-Size Biases in Statistical Inference of Communities in Temporal Networks
Theodore Y. Faust, Arash A. Amini, Mason A. Porter
In the study of time-dependent (i.e., temporal) networks, researchers often examine the evolution of communities, which are sets of densely connected sets of nodes that are connect…
A disease-spread model on hypergraphs with distinct droplet and aerosol transmission modes
Tung D. Nguyen, Mason A. Porter
We examine the spread of an infectious disease, such as one that is caused by a respiratory virus, with two distinct modes of transmission. To do this, we consider a susceptible--i…