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The paper entitled, "Balancing Speed and Coverage by Sequential Seeding in Complex Networks," by J. Jankowski, P. Brodka, P. Kazienko, B. K. Szymanski, R. Michalski and T. Kajdanowicz has been published in Scientific Reports 7:891, April 18, 2017.

Apr. 18, 2017: The paper entitled "Balancing Speed and Coverage by Sequential Seeding in Complex Networks," by J. Jankowski, P. Brodka, P. Kazienko, B. K. Szymanski, R. Michalski and T. Kajdanowicz has been published in Scientific Reports 7:891, April 17, 2017. (more)

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Dr. Piotr Brodka presented a talk on “Current Challenges in the Area of Spreading Processes in Multilayer Networks”

Feb. 27, 2017: On February 23, 2017, Dr. Piotr Brodka while visiting RPI within the RENOIR project (http://renoirproject.eu/) presented a talk on “Current Challenges in the Area of Spreading Processes in Multilayer Networks”. The spreading processes in complex network and multilayer complex networks are among the fastest developing topics in modern network science. (more)

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Jun 28, 2017
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 22, 2017
The paper entitled "The Effects of Communication Burstiness on Consensus Formation and Tipping Points in Social Dynamics,” by C. Doyle, B. K. Szymanski, and G. Korniss was published by Physical Review E, 96:062303 (2017), see link below.
Jun 21, 2017
On June 20, 2017, Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski presented an invited talk “Co-evolution of social ties in multi-layer social networks” at ISODS III NetSci Satellite Workshop in Indianapolis, IN.
Jun 20, 2017
Today, Noemi Derzsy presented a talk “Chicago Crime and House Prices: From Analysis to Prediction” by N. Derzsy, B. Szymanski and G. Korniss at NetCrime NetSci Satellite Workshop in Indianapolis, IN.
Jun 20, 2017
On June 19, 2017, Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski presented an invited talk on “Impact of Social Influence on Society Stability” at the Social Influence Satellite Workshop at the NetSci Conference in Indianapolis, IN.
Jun 17, 2017
The US Patent Office issued a patent #9,655,564 titled "Use of machine learning for classification of magneto cardiograms" co-invented by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski.
Jun 07, 2017
Dr. Panagiotis Karampopurniotis, Research Assistant in the Center, advised by Prof. Gyorgy Korniss and Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski, defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "The Impact of Heterogeneity in Thresholds of Opinion Dynamics and in Crowd Decision-Making"
Jun 05, 2017
On June 2nd, 2017, B.K. Szymanski presented a keynote entitled "Large Scale Community Detection in Social and Bio-Medical Networks" at the IEEE Parallel & DistributedProcessing for Computational Social Systems (ParSocial 2017) Orlando, FL see link below.
Jun 04, 2017
The paper entitled "Information Cascades in Feed-based Networks of Users with Limited Attention," by S. Sreenivasan, K. Chan, A. Swami, G. Korniss, and B. Szymanski was published by the IEEE Trans. Network Science and Eng., 4(2):120-128, see link below.
Jun 03, 2017
On June 2nd, 2017, Xiauyan Lu presented a paper entitled "Predicting Viral News Events in Online Media" authored by himself and Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski at the IEEE Parallel and Distributed Proc. for Comput. Social Systems (ParSocial 2011).