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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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Jun 08, 2019
A paper titled "Modeling Human Temporal Dynamics in Agent-Based Simulations," by James Flamino, Weike Dai, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski was published in Proc. ACM SIGSIM-PADS'19.
Jun 07, 2019
The paper titled: "Predicting complex user behavior from CDR based social networks," by Casey Doyle, Zala Herga, Stephen Dipple, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Gyorgy Korniss, and Dunja Mladenic was published in Information Systems
Jun 06, 2019
Prof. Dunja Mladenic presented a seminar hosted by Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski and titled "Observing User Mobility"
May 16, 2019
Julian Sienkiewicz from Warsaw University of Technology presented a talk titled "Cricriticality in the q-neighbor Ising model on a partially duplex clique" today
Apr 20, 2019
The paper titled "What makes the social search efficient," by Amr Elsisy, Buster Holzbauer, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Miao Qi, and Alex Pentland was posted in arXiv
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"