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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. 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. The research presented in the talk was inspired by recent global events and their poor predictability that are often attributed to the complexity of the world event dynamics. (more)

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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 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"
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.