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Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference
Peter M. Krafft, Julia Zheng, Wei Pan +5
Collective intelligence is believed to underly the remarkable success of human society. The formation of accurate shared beliefs is one of the key components of human collective in…
Urban characteristics attributable to density-driven tie formation
Wei Pan, Gourab Ghoshal, Coco Krumme +2
Motivated by empirical evidence on the interplay between geography, population density and societal interaction, we propose a generative process for the evolution of social structu…
Trends Prediction Using Social Diffusion Models
Yaniv Altshuler, Wei Pan, Alex Pentland
The importance of the ability of predict trends in social media has been growing rapidly in the past few years with the growing dominance of social media in our everyday's life. Wh…
Composite Social Network for Predicting Mobile Apps Installation
Wei Pan, Nadav Aharony, Alex Pentland
We have carefully instrumented a large portion of the population living in a university graduate dormitory by giving participants Android smart phones running our sensing software.…
Modeling Dynamical Influence in Human Interaction Patterns
Wei Pan, Manuel Cebrian, Wen Dong +3
How can we model influence between individuals in a social system, even when the network of interactions is unknown? In this article, we review the literature on the "influence mod…
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…