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Dr. Xiang Niu supervised by Prof. Bolesaw K. Szymanski defended the Ph.D. thesis "The Dynamics in Opinion and Global Risk Networks: Modeling, Discovering and Control" and will join Google, Inc.

Jul. 06, 2019: Dr. Xiang Niu supervised by Professor Bolesaw K. Szymanski defended the Ph.D. thesis "The Dynamics in Opinion and Global Risk Networks: Modeling, Discovering and Control" and will join Google, Inc. in Montain View, CA in August 2019. Dr. Xiang was also co-advised by Professors Gyorgy Korniss of Physics and Jianxi Gao of Computer Science. (more)

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The paper entitled "The impact of variable commitment in the Naming Game on consensus formation," by Xiang Niu, Casey Doyle, Gyorgy Korniss and Boleslaw K. Szymanski has been published in Scientific Reports 7, 41750, 2017 doi: 10.1038/srep41750

Feb. 03, 2017: The paper is available on Scientific Report site and at http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/papers/srep41750.pdf. The authors study the effect of making commitment variable has on the dynamics of the system. Committed nodes are assigned a commitment strength, w, defining their willingness to lose (in waning), gain (for increasing) or both (in variable) commitment to an opinion. (more)

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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.
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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
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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
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