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The asynchronous rumor algorithm spreading propagates a piece of information, the so-called rumor, in a network. Starting with a single informed node, each node is associated with an exponential time clock with rate $1$ and calls a random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ali Pourmiri , Bernard Mans

Spread of information in crowd is analysed in terms of directed percolation in two-dimensional spatial network. We investigate the case when the information transmitted can be incomplete or damaged. The results indicate that for small or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-04-26 Krzysztof Malarz , Vikas Chandra , Eve Mitleton-Kelly , Krzysztof Kulakowski

We study different mechanisms of gossip propagation on several network topologies and introduce a new network property, the "spread factor", describing the fraction of neighbors that get to know the gossip. We postulate that for scale-free…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-01-01 Pedro G. Lind , Luciano R. da Silva , José S. Andrade , Hans J. Herrmann

We formulate the problem of fake news detection using distributed fact-checkers (agents) with unknown reliability. The stream of news/statements is modeled as an independent and identically distributed binary source (to represent true and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Ashwin Verma , Soheil Mohajer , Behrouz Touri

We empirically analyze two versions of the well-known "randomized rumor spreading" protocol to disseminate a piece of information in networks. In the classical model, in each round each informed node informs a random neighbor. In the…

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

Understanding how information can efficiently spread in distributed systems under noisy communications is a fundamental question in both biological research and artificial system design. When agents are able to control whom they interact…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Niccolò D'Archivio , Amos Korman , Emanuele Natale , Robin Vacus

A model for information spreading in a population of $N$ mobile agents is extended to $d$-dimensional regular lattices. This model, already studied on two-dimensional lattices, also takes into account the degeneration of information as it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Agliari , R. Burioni , D. Cassi , F. M. Neri

We study the collective dynamics of a lattice model of stochastically interacting agents with a weighted field of vision. We assume that agents preferentially interact with neighbours, depending on their relative location, through velocity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-11 Shakti N. Menon , Trilochan Bagarti , Abhijit Chakraborty

We consider model social networks in which information propagates directionally across layers of rational agents. Each agent makes a locally optimal estimate of the state of the world, and communicates this estimate to agents downstream.…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-22 Simon Stolarczyk , Manisha Bhardwaj , Kevin E. Bassler , Wei Ji Ma , Kresimir Josic

Social network is a main tunnel of rumor spreading. Previous studies are concentrated on a static rumor spreading. The content of the rumor is invariable during the whole spreading process. Indeed, the rumor evolves constantly in its…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-03-01 Yichao Zhang , Shi Zhou , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

A gossip process is an iterative process in a multi-agent system where only two neighboring agents communicate at each iteration and update their states. The neighboring condition is by convention described by an undirected graph. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Xudong Chen , Mohamed-Ali Belabbas , Ji Liu

Recently, contagion-based (disease, information, etc.) spreading on social networks has been extensively studied. In this paper, other than traditional full interaction, we propose a partial interaction based spreading model, considering…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-17 Zi-Ke Zhang , Chu-Xu Zhang , Xiao-Pu Han , Chuang Liu

The rapid and widespread dissemination of misinformation through social networks is a growing concern in today's digital age. This study focused on modeling fake news diffusion, discovering the spreading dynamics, and designing control…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Ali Khodabandeh Yalabadi , Mehdi Yazdani-Jahromi , Sina Abdidizaji , Ivan Garibay , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay

We propose an SIS competition model describing the propagation of conflicting rumors, such as fake news and its corrections. This simple model captures the interaction between rumor propagation and opinion dynamics, where rumors drive…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-27 Yu Takiguchi , Koji Nemoto

Opinion diffusion is a crucial phenomenon in social networks, often underlying the way in which a collective of agents develops a consensus on relevant decisions. The voter model is a well-known theoretical model to study opinion spreading…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Luca Becchetti , Vincenzo Bonifaci , Emilio Cruciani , Francesco Pasquale

We propose a stochastic model of opinion exchange in networks. A finite set of agents is organized in a fixed network structure. There is a binary state of the world and each agent receives a private signal on the state. We model beliefs as…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-01-31 Emilien Macault

With the popularity of portable wireless devices it is important to model and predict how information or contagions spread by natural human mobility -- for understanding the spreading of deadly infectious diseases and for improving delay…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Aria Rezaei , Jie Gao , Jeff M. Phillips , Csaba D. Tóth

We proposed a new model, which capture the main difference between information and opinion spreading. In information spreading additional exposure to certain information has a small effect. Contrary, when an actor is exposed to 2 opinioned…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-06-07 Igor Kanovsky , Omer Yaary

An informed planner wishes to spread information among a group of agents in order to induce efficient coordination -- say the adoption of a new technology with positive externalities. The agents are connected via a social network. The…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-02-09 Yu Awaya , Vijay Krishna

We introduce an interacting particle system that models the spread of an epidemic in terms of heterogeneous diffusive dynamics, rather than exogenous contact and transmission rates at the population level as in classical compartmental…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Eliana Fausti , Andreas Sojmark