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most citedKinetics of Social Contagion

111 citations · 312 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Core-periphery structure induces double phase transitions in information cascades

Jiaqi Nie, Xincheng Shu, Yong Min +2

Double phase transitions in spreading processes are commonly associated with additional dynamical or structural complexity. Here, we show that such transitions can emerge naturally…

physics.soc-ph2025

An effective method for profiling core-periphery structures in complex networks

Jiaqi Nie, Qi Xuan, Dehong Gao +1

Profiling core-periphery structures in networks has attracted significant attention, leading to the development of various methods. Among these, the rich-core method is distinguish…

physics.soc-ph2024

Social contagion under hybrid interactions

Xincheng Shu, Man Yang, Zhongyuan Ruan +1

Threshold-driven models and game theory are two fundamental paradigms for describing human interactions in social systems. However, in mimicking social contagion processes, models…

cs.SI2024★ 1 cited

Exploring agent interaction patterns in the comment sections of fake and real news

Kailun Zhu, Songtao Peng, Jiaqi Nie +3

User comments on social media have been recognized as a crucial factor in distinguishing between fake and real news, with many studies focusing on the textual content of user react…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

A simple model of global cascades on random hypergraphs

Lei Chen, Yanpeng Zhu, Jiadong Zhu +5

This study introduces a comprehensive framework that situates information cascades within the domain of higher-order interactions, utilizing a double-threshold hypergraph model. We…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

Hub-collision avoidance and leaf-node options algorithm for fractal dimension and renormalization of complex networks

Feiyan Guo, Jiajun Zhou, Zhongyuan Ruan +2

The box-covering method plays a fundamental role in the fractal property recognition and renormalization analysis of complex networks. This study proposes the hub-collision avoidan…

cs.CR2023

MAD-MulW: A Multi-Window Anomaly Detection Framework for BGP Security Events

Songtao Peng, Yiping Chen, Xincheng Shu +4

In recent years, various international security events have occurred frequently and interacted between real society and cyberspace. Traditional traffic monitoring mainly focuses on…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 10 cited

Epidemic spreading under game-based self-quarantine behaviors: The different effects of local and global information

Zegang Huang, Xincheng Shu, Qi Xuan +1

During the outbreak of an epidemic, individuals may modify their behaviors in response to external (including local and global) infection-related information. However, the differen…

physics.soc-ph2022

How the reversible change of contact network affects the epidemic spreading

Xincheng Shu, Zhongyuan Ruan

The mobility patterns of individuals in China during the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic exhibit reversible changes -- in many regions, the mobility first decreased signifi…

cs.LG2021

A Multi-View Framework for BGP Anomaly Detection via Graph Attention Network

Songtao Peng, Jiaqi Nie, Xincheng Shu +4

As the default protocol for exchanging routing reachability information on the Internet, the abnormal behavior in traffic of Border Gateway Protocols (BGP) is closely related to In…

cs.NI2021★ 3 cited

Inferring Multiple Relationships between ASes using Graph Convolutional Network

Songtao Peng, Xincheng Shu, Zhongyuan Ruan +2

Precisely understanding the business relationships between Autonomous Systems (ASes) is essential for studying the Internet structure. So far, many inference algorithms have been p…

cs.SI2021★ 3 cited

Sampling Subgraph Network with Application to Graph Classification

Jinhuan Wang, Pengtao Chen, Bin Ma +4

Graphs are naturally used to describe the structures of various real-world systems in biology, society, computer science etc., where subgraphs or motifs as basic blocks play an imp…

q-bio.PE2021★ 43 cited

Epidemic spreading under mutually independent intra- and inter-host pathogen evolution

Xiyun Zhang, Zhongyuan Ruan, Muhua Zheng +3

The dynamics of epidemic spreading is often reduced to the single control parameter , whose value, above or below unity, determines the state of the contagion. If, however, th…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 63 cited

Effect of heterogeneous risk perception on information diffusion, behavior change, and disease transmission

Yang Ye, Qingpeng Zhang, Zhongyuan Ruan +3

Motivated by the importance of individual differences in risk perception and behavior change in people's responses to infectious disease outbreaks (particularly the ongoing COVID-1…

cs.SI2020★ 2 cited

Adversarial Attacks to Scale-Free Networks: Testing the Robustness of Physical Criteria

Qi Xuan, Yalu Shan, Jinhuan Wang +2

Adversarial attacks have been alerting the artificial intelligence community recently, since many machine learning algorithms were found vulnerable to malicious attacks. This paper…

cs.SI2019★ 59 cited

Subgraph Networks with Application to Structural Feature Space Expansion

Qi Xuan, Jinhuan Wang, Minghao Zhao +4

Real-world networks exhibit prominent hierarchical and modular structures, with various subgraphs as building blocks. Most existing studies simply consider distinct subgraphs as mo…

cs.SI2018★ 3 cited

A Self-Learning Information Diffusion Model for Smart Social Networks

Qi Xuan, Xincheng Shu, Zhongyuan Ruan +3

In this big data era, more and more social activities are digitized thereby becoming traceable, and thus the studies of social networks attract increasing attention from academia.…

physics.soc-ph2017

Service adoption spreading in online social networks

Gerardo Iñiguez, Zhongyuan Ruan, Kimmo Kaski +2

The collective behaviour of people adopting an innovation, product or online service is commonly interpreted as a spreading phenomenon throughout the fabric of society. This proces…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 10 cited

An efficient approach to suppress the negative role of contrarian oscillators in synchronization

Xiyun Zhang, Zhongyuan Ruan, Zonghua Liu

It has been found that contrarian oscillators usually take a negative role in the collective behaviors formed by conformist oscillators. However, experiments revealed that it is al…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 111 cited

Kinetics of Social Contagion

Zhongyuan Ruan, Gerardo Iniguez, Marton Karsai +1

Diffusion of information, behavioral patterns or innovations follows diverse pathways depending on a number of conditions, including the structure of the underlying social network,…