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In the last years, the study of rumor spreading on social networks produced a lot of interest among the scientific community, expecially due to the role of social networks in the last political events. The goal of this work is to reproduce…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Mattia Mazzoli , Tullio Re , Roberto Bertilone , Marco Maggiora , Jacopo Pellegrino

The understanding and prediction of information diffusion processes on networks is a major challenge in network theory with many implications in social sciences. Many theoretical advances occurred due to stochastic spreading models.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-11 Hongrun Wu , Alex Arenas , Sergio Gómez

The rapid spread of information and rumors through social media platforms, especially in group settings, motivates the need for more sophisticated models of rumor propagation. Traditional pairwise models do not account for group…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-29 Kleber A. Oliveira , Pietro Traversa , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Yamir Moreno

We consider the Maki-Thompson model for the stochastic propagation of a rumour within a population. We extend the original hypothesis of homogenously mixed population by allowing for a small-world network embedding the model. This structure…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Elena Agliari , Angelica Pachon , Pablo M. Rodriguez , Flavia Tavani

We study the dynamics of an epidemic-like model for the spread of a rumor on a small-world network. It has been shown that this model exhibits a transition between regimes of localization and propagation at a finite value of the network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Damian H. Zanette

We show that a signal can propagate in a particular direction through a model random medium regardless of the precise state of the medium. As a prototype, we consider a point particle moving on a one-dimensional lattice whose sites are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Patrick Grosfils , Jean Pierre Boon , E. G. D. Cohen , L. A. Bunimovich

We consider open multi-agent systems. Unlike the systems usually studied in the literature, here agents may join or leave while the process studied takes place. The system composition and size evolve thus with time. We focus here on systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Julien M. Hendrickx , Samuel Martin

The spreading and controlling of rumors have great impacts on our society. The transmission of infectious diseases and the spreading of rumors have some common scenarios. Like cross-infection propagation of diseases, two or many kinds of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-14 Md. Nahid Hasan , Sujana Azmi Polin , Saiful Islam , Chandra Nath Podder

Stochastic processes can model many emerging phenomena on networks, like the spread of computer viruses, rumors, or infectious diseases. Understanding the dynamics of such stochastic spreading processes is therefore of fundamental interest.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Gerrit Großmann , Verena Wolf

We propose and analyze a quasirandom analogue of the classical push model for disseminating information in networks ("randomized rumor spreading"). In the classical model, in each round each informed vertex chooses a neighbor at random and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Benjamin Doerr , Tobias Friedrich , Thomas Sauerwald

We study the diffusion of a true and a false message (the rumor) in a social network. Upon hearing a message, individuals may believe it, disbelieve it, or debunk it through costly verification. Whenever the truth survives in steady state,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-12 Luca P. Merlino , Paolo Pin , Nicole Tabasso

Information, ideas, and diseases, or more generally, contagions, spread over space and time through individual transmissions via social networks, as well as through external sources. A detailed picture of any diffusion process can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Fangcao Xu , Bruce Desmarais , Donna Peuquet

Motivated by the study of social insects, we introduce a stochastic model based on interacting particle systems in order to understand the effect of communication on the division of labor. Members of the colony are located on the vertex set…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Alesandro Arcuri , Nicolas Lanchier

Motivated by the growing interest in mobile systems, we study the dynamics of information dissemination between agents moving independently on a plane. Formally, we consider $k$ mobile agents performing independent random walks on an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-02 Alberto Pettarin , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

We study a stochastic model for the coevolution of a process of opinion formation in a population of agents and the network which underlies their interaction. Interaction links can break when agents fail to reach an opinion agreement. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Santiago Gil , Damian H. Zanette

We consider a community detection problem for gossip dynamics with stubborn agents in this paper. It is assumed that the communication probability matrix for agent pairs has a block structure. More specifically, we assume that the network…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Yu Xing , Xingkang He , Haitao Fang , Karl Henrik Johansson

In this work we study the opinion formation in a voter-like model defined on a square lattice of linear size $L$. The agents may be in three different states, representing any public debate with three choices (yes, no, undecided). We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-18 Nuno Crokidakis

Rumor and information spreading are natural processes that emerge from human-to-human interaction. Mathematically, this was explored in the popular Maki-Thompson model, where a phase transition was thought to be absent. Here, we show that a…

We develop an analytical model of information dissemination for a gossiping protocol that combines both pull and push approaches. With this model we analyse how fast an item is replicated through a network, and how fast the item spreads in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-03-11 Rena Bakhshi , Daniela Gavidia , Wan Fokkink , Maarten van Steen

We propose a stochastic model of evolution of wealth in a society of economic agents. In the model, an agent can be in two states: inactive and active. Transitions between the states occur at random time intervals. In the active state, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Indrani Bose , Subhasis Banerjee