Recent years have witnessed a significant trend towards filling the gap between Social
Network Analysis (SNA) and control theory. This trend was enabled by the introduction of …

The spread of ideas is a fundamental concern of today's news ecology. Understanding the
dynamics of the spread of information and its co-option by interested parties is of critical …

Individuals who interact with each other in social networks often exchange ideas and
influence each other's opinions. A popular approach to study the spread of opinions on …

With the availability of internet, social media, etc., the interconnectedness of people within
most societies has increased tremendously over the past decades. Across the same …

The remarkable robustness of many social systems has been associated with a peculiar
triangular structure in the underlying social networks. Triples of people that have three …

In the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, it is important to predict which individual
opinions eventually dominate in a large population, whether there will be a consensus, and …

Homophily between agents and structural balance in connected triads of agents are
complementary mechanisms thought to shape social groups leading to, for instance …

Recent attempts to understand the origin of social fragmentation on the basis of spin models
include terms accounting for two social phenomena: homophily—the tendency for people …

Engaging with dissenting views, fostering productive disagreements or strategic
anticonformity can benefit organizations as it challenges the status quo. The question arises …

In the existing research results of the complex dynamical networks controlled, the controllers
are mainly used to guarantee the synchronization or stabilization of the nodes' state, and the …