human behavior models

Top Headlines

Boleslaw Szymanski and Gyorgy Korniss of the NeST Center are the members of SocialCube $4M grant funded by the new DARPA Social Sim program

Jun. 28, 2017: RPI researchers Boleslaw Szymanski (PI) and Gyorgy Korniss (co-PI) joined the team of UIUC researchers: Tarek Abdelzaher (PI), Jiawei Han (co-PI) and David Nicol (co-PI) in preparing a proposal titled SocialCube: A Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Framework for Social Streams. In June, this proposal has been selected for funding by the new DARPA program called Social Sim. (more)

Recent News

Oct 04, 2019
On October 2, Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented an invited talk on "Finding Efficient Spreaders for Information Diffusion in Social Networks," at the Conference on Complex Networks.
Oct 04, 2019
Prof. Janusz Holyst presented today a talk on "Finding the source of local information cascades in complex networks," co-authored by Krzysztof Suchecki, Boleslaw K. Szymanski at the Conference on Complex Systems.
Oct 03, 2019
Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented the paper "Optimal Control of Networked Risks: Minimizing Time and Energy" at the Conference on Complex System, Singapore in Oct. 1, 2019
Sep 17, 2019
A paper titled "An Experimental Approach to Identify Perceived Opinion Formation Thresholds from Social Media," coauthored by Gyorgy Korniss & Boleslaw Szymanski was posted as ARL TR
Sep 14, 2019
Dr. Ashwin Bahulkar presented a demo titled "Modeling and predicting human social behavior" co-authored by Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Kevin Chan and Omar Lizardo at KDD'2019 in Anchorage, AK, on August 3, 2019
Sep 13, 2019
A new paper titled "A Regularized Stochastic Block Model for the robust community detection in complex networks," by X. Lu and B.K. Szymanski was published in Scientific Reports, vol.9:13247 today.
Aug 29, 2019
Prof. Krzysztof Suchecki of Warsaw University of Technology presented today a seminar hosted by Prof. Szymanski on " Detecting the source of spread in complex networks"
Aug 10, 2019
Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented the keynote talk at the Political Polarization Workshop on "Political Polarization in Legislative Branches" in Princeton University on August 9, 2019
Aug 03, 2019
Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented the invited paper "A Reaction-Based Approach to Information Cascade Analysis," by James Flamino and himself at the 2019 IEEE ICCCN in Valencia, Spain.
Jul 27, 2019
Dr. Stephen Dipple supervised by Prof. Gyorgy Korniss and Prof. Bolesaw K. Szymanski defended the Ph.D. thesis on "Modeling Complex Human Behavior in Socio-Economic Networks" in Physics.