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A paper on "Influence of Personal Preferences on Link Dynamics in Social Networks," by A. Bahulkar, B.K. Szymanski, N. Chawla, O. Lizardo & K. Chan was published in Complexity, vol. 2017:4543563.

Sep. 20, 2017: A paper on "Influence of Personal Preferences on Link Dynamics in Social Networks," by Ashwin Bahulkar, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Nitesh Chawla, Omar Lizardo and Kevin Chan was published in Complexity, 2017:4543563. The paper studies a unique network dataset including periodic surveys and electronic logs of dyadic contacts via smartphones. (more)

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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. 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. The talk uses the naming game committed minorities as a model for impact of opinion diversity on society evolution. (more)

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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: On May 4, 2917, 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. The talk demonstrates how human cognition impacts influence in social networks. (more)

Recent News

Dec 20, 2018
Prof. Shlomo Havlin presented a joint NEST Center and Computer Science colloquium on Cascading Failures and Recovery in Networks of Networks at RPI on December 13, 2018
Nov 08, 2018
Today, Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a talk entitled "Finding Efficient Spreaders for Information Diffusion in Social Networks," at the Department of Computer Science a the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Oct 30, 2018
Prof. Petko Bogdanov presented a talk on "Treating time as a first-class citizen in dynamic graph mining" hosted by Boleslaw Szymanski at the joint colloquium of CS Department and NEST Center
Oct 28, 2018
A paper entitled "Entropy Measures of Human Communication Dynamics," by Marcin Kulisiewicz, Przemyslaw Kazienko, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, and Radoslaw Michalski was published by Scientific Reports, 8:15697. Oct., 2018.
Oct 25, 2018
Paper on "Integrative Analytics for Detecting and Disrupting Transnational Interdependent Criminal Smuggling, Money, and Money-Laundering Networks," co-authored by Thomas Sharkey and Boleslaw K. Szymanski got the best paper award at the HST'18 conference.
Oct 18, 2018
Boleslaw K. Szymanski participated an invitational workshop organized by Amazon on October 17 in Seattle titled “All Boats Rise? Social Capital, Promise and Peril” in a session titled “No One is an (I) Land.”
Oct 14, 2018
The paper on "Scalable Prediction of Global Online Media News Virality," Xiaoyan Lu, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski is now listed by GDELT Blog
Oct 12, 2018
Joanna Toruniewska, RENOIR visitor to the Center presented a seminar entitled "The new constant of motion for coevolving voter model" hosted by Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski on October 11, 2018
Sep 18, 2018
Dr. Joel Branch, Ph.D. graduate from Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski resaerch group and former researcher at the center, is featured in the People of ACM Bulletin
Sep 15, 2018
W. E. Messamore in IVN wrote about the Center research on role of committed minority in opinion change based on a paper “Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities," by J. Xie, G. Korniss, B.K. Szymanski, at al.