Many social networks are characterized by actors (nodes) holding quantitative opinions
about movies, songs, sports, people, colleges, politicians, and so on. These opinions are …

Social networks, forums, and social media have emerged as global platforms for forming
and shaping opinions on a broad spectrum of topics like politics, sports, and entertainment …

Online social networks provide a globally available, massive-scale infrastructure for people
to exchange information and ideas. A topic of great interest in social networks research is …

Opinion dynamics the research field dealing with how people's opinions form and evolve in
a social context? traditionally uses agent-based models to validate the implications of …

A fundamental aspect of society is the exchange and discussion of opinions between
individuals, occurring in situations as varied as company boardrooms, elementary school …

Investigation of social influence dynamics requires mathematical models that are “simple”
enough to admit rigorous analysis, and yet sufficiently “rich” to capture salient features of …

Social networks serve as important platforms for users to express, exchange and form
opinions on various topics. Several opinion dynamics models have been proposed to …

Influence maximization (IM) targets at maximizing the number of users being aware of a
product by finding a set of seed users to expose in a social network. Previous IM models …

We present a generalised complex contagion model for describing behaviour and opinion
spreading on social networks. Recurrent interactions between adjacent nodes and circular …

Our opinions and judgments are increasingly shaped by what we read on social media--
whether they be tweets and posts in social networks, blog posts, or review boards. These …