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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

Aug 27, 2018
Dr. Casey Doyle defended his Ph.D. thesis on Introducing Non-Markovian and Empirical Effects into Social Interaction Models supervised by Gyorgy Korniss and Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Aug 20, 2018
Dr. Sue Kase presented a talk on "The Future of Deception: Machine Generated and Manipulated Images, Video, and Audio?" co-authored among others by Boleslaw K. Szymanski at Social Sens in Orlando, FL on April 17.2018, abstract of which is published now.
Aug 20, 2018
Prof. Przemyslaw Kazienko presented a talk on "CogSNet: Cognition-driven Social Network" co-authored by Radosław Michalski, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Christian Lebiere, Omar Lizardo, Marcin Kulisiewicz at NetSci, Paris, June, 2018.
Aug 20, 2018
Panagiotis Karampourniotis presented a talk on "Influence Maximization for Fixed Heterogeneous Thresholds" co-authored by Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Gyorgy Kornis at the 9th ICCS in Cambridge, MA, July 22-27, 2018.
Aug 20, 2018
Robert Paluch presented a talk on "Fast and accurate detection of spread source in large complex networks" co-authored by Xiaoyan Lu, Krzysztof Suchecki, Boleslaw Szymanski, Janusz Holyst in Cambridge, MA in July 2018.
Aug 18, 2018
A paper entitled "Evolution of threats in the global risk network," by Xiang Niu, Alaa Moussawi, G. Korniss and Boleslaw K. Szymanski has been published by Applied Network Science journal.
Aug 17, 2018
A paper titled "Scalable Prediction of Global Online Media News Virality," by Xiaoyan Lu and Boleslaw K. Szymanski has been published by IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 5(3) 2018
Aug 16, 2018
Springer journal Applied Network Science is inviting contributions to a new article collection on community structures in network co-edited by Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Aug 03, 2018
On July 30, Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski presented a paper titled “Is Crowdcharging Possible?” co-authored by Prof. Eyuphan Bulut and his students at ICCCN 2018
Aug 03, 2018
On July 30, Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski presented an invited paper titled “Interaction Patterns in a Multilayer Social Network” co-authored Ashwin Bahulkar at ICCCN 2018