69 citations · 87 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for
6 papers
Automatic Detection of Influential Actors in Disinformation Networks
Steven T. Smith, Edward K. Kao, Erika D. Mackin +3
The weaponization of digital communications and social media to conduct disinformation campaigns at immense scale, speed, and reach presents new challenges to identify and counter…
Submodularity in Systems with Higher Order Consensus with Absolute Information
Erika Mackin, Stacy Patterson
We investigate the performance of m-th order consensus systems with stochastic external perturbations, where a subset of leader nodes incorporates absolute information into their c…
Maximizing Diversity of Opinion in Social Networks
Erika Mackin, Stacy Patterson
We study the problem of maximizing opinion diversity in a social network that includes opinion leaders with binary opposing opinions. The members of the network who are not leaders…
Submodular Optimization for Consensus Networks with Noise-Corrupted Leaders
Erika Mackin, Stacy Patterson
We consider the leader selection problem in a network with consensus dynamics where both leader and follower agents are subject to stochastic external disturbances. The performance…
Optimizing the Coherence of Composite Networks
Erika Mackin, Stacy Patterson
We consider how to connect a set of disjoint networks to optimize the performance of the resulting composite network. We quantify this performance by the coherence of the composite…
Allocating Indivisible Items in Categorized Domains
Erika Mackin, Lirong Xia
We formulate a general class of allocation problems called categorized domain allocation problems (CDAPs), where indivisible items from multiple categories are allocated to agents…