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The paper begins by exploring the rationality of ethical trust as a foundational concept. This involves distinguishing between trust and trustworthiness and delving into scenarios where trust is both rational and moral. It lays the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Abbas Tariverdi

A common assumption in the literature on information diffusion is that populations are homogeneous regarding individuals' information acquisition and propagation process: Individuals update their informed and actively communicating state…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Flávio L. Pinheiro , Vítor V. Vasconcelos

Given the growth of urbanization and emerging pandemic threats, more sophisticated models are required to understand disease propagation and investigate the impacts of intervention strategies across various city types. We introduce a fully…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-03 Nishant Kumar , Jimi B. Oke , Bat-hen Nahmias-Biran

One major function of social networks (e.g., massive online social networks) is the dissemination of information such as scientific knowledge, news, and rumors. Information can be propagated by the users of the network via natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-30 Dmitry Zinoviev , Vy Duong , Honggang Zhang

It is generally accepted that scale-free networks is prone to epidemic spreading allowing the onset of large epidemics whatever the spreading rate of the infection. In the paper, we show that disease propagation may be suppressed in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-05 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Tao Zou , Jihong Guan

With the advancement of computational network science, its research scope has significantly expanded beyond static graphs to encompass more complex structures. The introduction of streaming, temporal, multilayer, and hypernetwork approaches…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Michał Czuba , Mateusz Nurek , Damian Serwata , Yu-Xuan Qiu , Mingshan Jia , Katarzyna Musial , Radosław Michalski , Piotr Bródka

Most mathematical models of opinion dynamics treat attitudes as scalar quantities or positions on a low-dimensional ideological axis. Empirical attitudes, however, are bundles of positions across many policy issues, and the geometry of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-12 Chico Q. Camargo

Propagation of chaos for interacting particle systems has been an active research topic over decades. We propose an alternative approach to study the mean-field limit of the stochastic interacting particle systems via tools from information…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Lei Li , Yuelin Wang , Yuliang Wang

In this paper, we revisit the problem of influence maximization with fairness, which aims to select k influential nodes to maximise the spread of information in a network, while ensuring that selected sensitive user attributes are fairly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yuting Feng , Ankitkumar Patel , Bogdan Cautis , Hossein Vahabi

In many complex networked systems, such as online social networks, activity originates at certain nodes and subsequently spreads on the network through influence. In this work, we consider the problem of modeling the spread of influence and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Arun Sathanur , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Yi Shi , Walin Sagduyu

The paper proposes a way to add marketing into the standard threshold model of social networks. Within this framework, the paper studies logical properties of the influence relation between sets of agents in social networks. Two different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Pavel Naumov , Jia Tao

From footpaths to flight routes, human mobility networks facilitate the spread of communicable diseases. Control and elimination efforts depend on characterizing these networks in terms of connections and flux rates of individuals between…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-29 Kyle B Gustafson , Basil S. Bayati , Philip A. Eckhoff

Temporal-network models have provided key insights into how time-varying connectivity shapes dynamical processes such as spreading. Among them, the activity-driven model is a widely used, analytically tractable benchmark. Yet many temporal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-20 Zsófia Simon , Jari Saramäki

This study is concerned with the dynamical behaviors of epidemic spreading over a two-layered interconnected network. Three models in different levels are proposed to describe cooperative spreading processes over the interconnected network,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-15 Xiang Wei , Xiaoqun Wu , Shihua Chen , Jun-an Lu , Guanrong Chen

The ubiquity of social platforms has reshaped the way information, behaviors, and advertisements diffuse across networks, with influence propagation often initiated by a small set of ``seed'' users. While much of the literature emphasizes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Fangzhu Shen , Amir Gilad , Sudeepa Roy

This article formalizes the problem of modeling social networks into an interacting particle system on random geometric graphs. Each vertex of the graph is associated with a geometric position in a latent space describing the unobserved…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Khader Khadraoui , Ahmed Sid-Ali

We consider diffusion processes on power-law small-world networks in different dimensions. In one dimension, we find a rich phase diagram, with different transient and recurrent phases, including a critical line with continuously varying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Balázs Kozma , Matthew B. Hastings , G. Korniss

We study the effect of heterogeneous temporal activations on epidemic spreading in temporal networks. We focus on the susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model on activity-driven networks with burstiness. By using an activity-based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-28 Marco Mancastroppa , Alessandro Vezzani , Miguel A. Muñoz , Raffaella Burioni

This paper considers particle propagation in a cylindrical molecular communication channel, e.g. a simplified model of a blood vessel. Emitted particles are influenced by diffusion, flow, and a vertical force induced e.g. by gravity or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Maximilian Schäfer , Wayan Wicke , Rudolf Rabenstein , Robert Schober

Despite the advanced stage of epidemic modeling, there is a major demand for methods to incorporate behavioral responses to the spread of a disease such as social distancing and adoption of prevention methods. Mobility plays an important…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-14 Paulo Cesar Ventura , Alberto Aleta , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Yamir Moreno