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)

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)