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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

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.
Sep 07, 2018
The Nature publishers posted a paper by Tao Jia, Dashun Wang and Boleslaw K. Szymanski entitled "Quantifying patterns of research-interest evolution" at a list of the recent best six papers on scientific careers
Aug 30, 2018
A paper titled “Probing Limits of Information Spread with Sequential Seeding” by Jaroslaw Jankowski, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Przemyslaw Kazienko, Radoslaw Michalski, and Piotr Brodka has been accepted by Scientific Reports on August 26, 2018
Aug 28, 2018
Dr. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a paper titled “Community Detection with Edge Augmentation in Criminal Networks” at the 2018 IEEE/ACM ASONAM Conference
Aug 28, 2018
Dr. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a paper titled “Impact of Attributes on Group Formation” co-authored by Ashwin Bahulkar, Kevin Chan and Omar Lizardo at the 2018 IEEE/ACM ASONAM Conference.
Aug 28, 2018
Dr. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a paper titled “Mining personal media thresholds for opinion dynamics and social influence” at the 2018 IEEE/ACM ASONAM Conference
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.