社会与信息网络

Networks are shaped by competing structural mechanisms, such as communities, geometry, or hubs. In a dynamic network the most predictive mechanism can change, and a model tied to one mechanism, or to fixed weights, cannot adapt as the…

The problem of predicting links in complex networks appears in different disciplines and has led to a variety of ingenious human-designed methods. We use this rich program space to explore the performance and behavior of automated…

Bot detection on social platforms has historically relied on a mix of account-metadata features and features extracted from the text of posts and profile fields. The arrival of capable language models complicates the latter. A bot operator…

Late payments and limited working capital propagate liquidity stress across supply chains, especially among small and medium sized enterprises. This paper develops a path enabled clearing framework for invoice backed trade networks and…

LLM-driven social bots can generate fluent, human-like text, reducing the discriminative advantage of content-based detection alone. However, coordinated campaigns still leave relational patterns -- interactions, behavioral similarity,…

Given a social network represented as a graph where the nodes are the users and the edges represent the social relations, and a positive integer k, how to select k nodes to maximize the influence in the network remains an active area of…

Social media platforms have become a major vector for the large-scale dissemination of misinformation and conspiracy content, posing significant risks to public trust, health, and societal stability. While prior work has primarily focused…

Large-scale disasters, such as pandemics and climate-related events, place extraordinary pressure on healthcare providers due to extreme demand surges. Managing these surges is essential to sustaining healthcare resilience. Although…

A fundamental step in knowledge discovery is statistically assessing data mining results. In network analysis, such evaluation compares the outcome of a given procedure with the outcomes obtained from randomized versions of the observed…

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…

Financial and economic research often relies on structured supply-chain disclosures and commercial databases. In China, supplier--customer disclosure is typically limited to major partners of listed firms, leaving unlisted firms and…

The source detection problem arises when an epidemic process unfolds over a contact network, and the objective is to identify its point of origin, i.e., the source node. Research on this problem began with the seminal work of Shah and Zaman…

The rapid evolution of large language model based multiagent systems has transformed digital communication, with platforms like MoltBook emerging as essential agent native environments for observing autonomous social behaviors. While…

Identifying dense subgraphs known as quasi-cliques is pivotal in numerous graph mining tasks across domains such as social networks, biology, and e-commerce. While prior work has developed efficient algorithms for quasi-clique detection in…

Editors and reviewers are expected to ensure that manuscripts cite relevant, accurate, current, and ethically appropriate literature, yet manuscript-level citation auditing remains largely manual, fragmented, and difficult to scale.…

xAI's large language model, Grok, is called by millions of people each week on the social media platform X. Prior work characterizing how large language models are used has focused on private, one-on-one interactions. Grok's deployment on X…

Despite extensive research, the mechanisms through which online platforms shape extremism and polarization remain poorly understood. We identify and test a mechanism, grounded in empirical evidence, that explains how ranking algorithms can…

Women comprise the majority of students and early-career scholars in psychology, yet they are less likely to remain active in research over time. This pattern raises a central question: At what stages of academic careers do women…

We present the Social Influence Game (SIG), a framework for modeling adversarial persuasion in social networks with an arbitrary number of competing players. Our goal is to provide a tractable and interpretable model of contested influence…

Public discourse around climate change remains polarized despite scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change (ACC). This study examines how "believers" and "skeptics" of ACC differ in their YouTube comment discourse. We analyzed…