network science

Error-correcting decoders for communities in networks

As recent work demonstrated, the task of identifying communities in networks can be considered analogous to the classical problem of decoding messages transmitted along a noisy channel. We leverage this analogy to develop a community detection method …

Error-Correcting Decoders for Communities in Networks

Error-Correcting Decoders for Communities in Networks

How Stable Is Democracy? Suggestions from Artificial Social Networks

The structure of communication networks can be more or less “democratic”: networks are less democratic if (a) communication is more limited in terms of characteristic degree and (b) is more tightly channeled to a few specic nodes. Together those …

An Agent-Based Model of Posting Behavior During Times of Societal Unrest

An Agent-Based Model of Posting Behavior During Times of Societal Unrest

Social media is increasingly monitored during periods of societal unrest to gauge public response and estimate the duration and severity of related protest events. To this end, we build an agent-based simulation model that accurately describes the …