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Dr. Fregolent presented a Center seminar entitled "Limited Individual Attention and Virality of Low-Quality Information in Online Social Networks," and hosted by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski

Mar. 19, 2018: Dr. Fregolent presented a talk on the advent of online social networks as major communication platforms for the exchange of information and opinions is having a significant impact on our lives by facilitating the sharing of ideas. Through networks such as Twitter and Facebook, users are exposed daily to a large number of transmissible pieces of information that compete to attain success. (more)

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Apr 12, 2019
Today, Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a talk titled "Finding Efficient Spreaders for Information Diffusion in Social Networks" at Google in Mountain View, CA.
Apr 06, 2019
A paper titled "Predicting complex user behavior from CDR based social networks," by Casey Doyle, Zela Herga Stephen Dipple, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Gyorgy Korniss, Dunja Mladenić was posted on arXiv
Apr 04, 2019
A paper titled "The Age of Social Sensing," by Dong Wang, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Tarek Abdelzaher, Heng Ji, and Lance Kaplan, was published in IEEE Computer, vol. 52(1), 2019.
Apr 03, 2019
A paper titled "Influence Maximization for Fixed Heterogeneous Thresholds," by P. D. Karampourniotis, Boleslaw K. Szymanski and G. Korniss has been published today by Scientific Reports.
Mar 27, 2019
Xiaoyan Lu advised by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski defended today successfully his thesis titled: "Community Detection and its Applications in Understanding Dynamics of Social Networks"
Feb 17, 2019
A paper titled "Asymptotic resolution bounds of generalized modularity and statistically significant community detection," by Xiaoyan Lu and Boleslaw K. Szymanski has been posted on arxiv
Jan 11, 2019
A paper titled "Opinion Formation Threshold Estimates from Different Combinations of Social Media Data-Types," co-authored by Casey Doyle, G. Korniss, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski of NEST was published in Proc. HICSS 2019.
Jan 09, 2019
A paper titled "A Predictive Self-Configuring Simulator for Online Media" co-authored by NEST James Flamino and Boleslaw K. Szymanski was published in Proc. IEEE WSC 2018.
Dec 20, 2018
Prof. Shlomo Havlin presented a joint NEST Center and Computer Science colloquium on Cascading Failures and Recovery in Networks of Networks at RPI on December 13, 2018
Nov 08, 2018
Today, Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a talk entitled "Finding Efficient Spreaders for Information Diffusion in Social Networks," at the Department of Computer Science a the University of California, Santa Barbara.