Naming Game

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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)

Recent News

Aug 09, 2017
Kellogg Insight published an article which discusses the Center paper entitled "Quantifying patterns of research-interest evolution," by T. Jia, D. Wang, and B. K. Szymanski, in Nature Human Behavior 1(4):0078, 2017.
Aug 07, 2017
The paper entitled "Influence of Personal Preferences on Link Dynamics in Social Networks," by A. Bahulkar, B.K. Szymanski, O. Lizardo, N. Chawla, and K. Chan has been accepted for publication in Complexity journal in vol. 2017.
Jul 27, 2017
The paper entitled "Limits of Risk Predictability in a Cascading Alternating Renewal Process Model," by Xin Lin, Alaa Moussawi, Gyorgy Korniss, Jonathan Z. Bakdash, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski was published by Scientific Reports 7:6699, 2017, see link below
Jul 23, 2017
PLOS One recognized the Center's paper as one of the top 10% most cited articles in this journal
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.