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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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May 22, 2017
The Center at the 211th Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Graduation Ceremony, Degrees: May 20th, 2017
May 05, 2017
Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski presented an invited talk on "Social Networks and Influence through the Prism of Cognition" at the research seminar of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University, Philadelphia. PA.
May 05, 2017
Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski was invited to present a keynote talk at the ParSocial 2017: The Second IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems.
May 05, 2017
RPI News and Communication issued a news release on "Patterns of Changing Research Interest Uncovered".
May 02, 2017
SCNARC Research Assistant, Mr. Juntao Zhuang, successfully defended his M.S. thesis advised by Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski entitled "Design and Implementation of the Web Interfaces and Middleware for Synergy Project" on March 30, 2017.
Apr 28, 2017
Dr. Xin Lin, Research Assitant in the Center, advised by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski, defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Preditcability Limit of Cascades in Interconnected Models".
Apr 21, 2017
Eyuphan Bulut presented the paper "Identifying the Spatial Buddies to Track Lost Items," co-authored by Boleslaw K. Szymanski at the 2nd International Workshop on Social Sensing (SocialSens'17) in Pittsburgh, PA.
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 18, 2017.
Apr 14, 2017
The Report from Network Science Workshop held in Arlington last year lists the RPI center NEST, with its important part SCNARC, as the third oldest academic center in the US focusing on network science, see link for details
Mar 29, 2017
The paper entitled, "Assortative Mating: Encounter-Network Topology and the Evolution of Attractiveness" by S. Dipple, T. Jia, T. Caraco, G. Korniss, and B.K. Szymanski has been published in Scientific Reports 7:45107, 2017.