Assistant Professor Yong Yeol Ahn from School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University visits the Section for Cognitive Systems and gives a talk on ‘Community structure and flocking of memes in social networks.’
Speaker: Yong Yeol Ahn, Assistant Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
Title: Community structure and flocking of memes in social networks
Abstract:
Spreading processes on networks (e.g. epidemic outbreak and information spreading) has been one of the most fundamental topics in network science. Information spreading in social networks has often been described by epidemic spreading models but recent studies demonstrated that some contagions (memes) exhibit fundamentally different pattern, where multiple exposure significantly enhances the transmission probability of the contagion. The cooperativity of a contagion makes the spreading process more sensitive to clustered network structure. Here we investigate the relationship between network communities and spreading of hashtags in a Twitter network.
Time & place:
24 May 2012, 13:00-14:00
Building 305, seminar room 053
All are welcome!
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