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Fragile, yet resilient: Adaptive decline in a collaboration network of firms
Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi, Mario V. Tomasello +1
The dynamics of collaboration networks of firms follow a life-cycle of growth and decline. That does not imply they also become less resilient. Instead, declining collaboration net…
An agent-based model of multi-dimensional opinion dynamics and opinion alignment
Simon Schweighofer, David Garcia, Frank Schweitzer
It is known that individual opinions on different policy issues often align to a dominant ideological dimension (e.g. "left" vs. "right") and become increasingly polarized. We prov…
Modeling User Reputation in Online Social Networks: The Role of Costs, Benefits, and Reciprocity
Frank Schweitzer, Pavlin Mavrodiev, Adrian M. Seufert +1
We analyze an agent-based model to estimate how the costs and benefits of users in an online social network (OSN) impact the robustness of the OSN. Benefits are measured in terms o…
How emotions drive opinion polarization: An agent-based model
Frank Schweitzer, Tamas Krivachy, David Garcia
We provide an agent-based model to explain the emergence of collective opinions not based on feedback between different opinions, but based on emotional interactions between agents…
The QWERTY effect on the web: How typing shapes the meaning of words in online human-computer interaction
David Garcia, Markus Strohmaier
The QWERTY effect postulates that the keyboard layout influences word meanings by linking positivity to the use of the right hand and negativity to the use of the left hand. For ex…
When the Filter Bubble Bursts: Collective Evaluation Dynamics in Online Communities
Adiya Abisheva, David Garcia, Frank Schweitzer
We analyze online collective evaluation processes through positive and negative votes in various social media. We find two modes of collective evaluations that stem from the existe…