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Effects of Racial Segregation on Economic Productivity in U.S. Cities
Andrew J. Stier, Sina Sajjadi, Luıs M. A. Bettencourt +2
Homophily and heterophobia, the tendency for people with similar characteristics to preferentially interact with (or avoid) each other are pervasive in human social networks. Here,…
Link recommendations: Their impact on network structure and minorities
Antonio Ferrara, Lisette Espín-Noboa, Fariba Karimi +1
Network-based people recommendation algorithms are widely employed on the Web to suggest new connections in social media or professional platforms. While such recommendations bring…
Structural inequalities exacerbate infection disparities: A computational approach
Sina Sajjadi, Pourya Toranj Simin, Mehrzad Shadmangohar +4
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we witnessed a disproportionate infection rate among marginalized and low-income groups. Despite empirical evidence suggesting that structural inequal…
The many facets of academic mobility and its impact on scholars' career
Fakhri Momeni, Fariba Karimi, Philipp Mayr +2
International mobility in academia can enhance the human and social capital of researchers and consequently their scientific outcome. However, there is still a very limited underst…
A temporal network version of Watts's cascade model
Fariba Karimi, Petter Holme
Threshold models of cascades in the social sciences and economics explain the spread of opinion and innovation due to social influence. In threshold cascade models, fads or innovat…
Bias in Data-driven AI Systems -- An Introductory Survey
Eirini Ntoutsi, Pavlos Fafalios, Ujwal Gadiraju +20
AI-based systems are widely employed nowadays to make decisions that have far-reaching impacts on individuals and society. Their decisions might affect everyone, everywhere and any…