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most citedMitigating the Backfire Effect Using Pacing and Leading

4 citations · 5 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.soc-ph20211 cited

The Impact of COVID-19 on Sports Betting Markets

Khizar Qureshi, Tauhid Zaman

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the betting markets of professional and college sports. We find that during the pandemic, the moneyline betting markets of the…

eess.SY2020

Optimal Dispatch in Emergency Service System via Reinforcement Learning

Cheng Hua, Tauhid Zaman

In the United States, medical responses by fire departments over the last four decades increased by 367%. This had made it critical to decision makers in emergency response departm…

cs.SI20204 cited

Mitigating the Backfire Effect Using Pacing and Leading

Qi Yang, Khizar Qureshi, Tauhid Zaman

Online social networks create echo-chambers where people are infrequently exposed to opposing opinions. Even if such exposure occurs, the persuasive effect may be minimal or nonexi…

cs.SI2018

Detecting Bots and Assessing Their Impact in Social Networks

Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards, David Scott Hunter, Zakaria el Hjouji +1

Online social networks are often subject to influence campaigns by malicious actors through the use of automated accounts known as bots. We consider the problem of detecting bots i…

cs.SI2018

Detecting Influence Campaigns in Social Networks Using the Ising Model

Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards, Tauhid Zaman

We consider the problem of identifying coordinated influence campaigns conducted by automated agents or bots in a social network. We study several different Twitter datasets which…

cs.SI2018

Penetrating a Social Network: The Follow-back Problem

Fanyu Que, Krishnan Rajagopalan, Tauhid Zaman

Modern threats have emerged from the prevalence of social networks. Hostile actors, such as extremist groups or foreign governments, utilize these networks to run propaganda campai…