Many strategic actions carry a 'contagious' component beyond the immediate locale of the
effort itself. Viral marketing and peacekeeping operations have both been observed to have …

Influence blocking games have been used to model adversarial domains with a social
component, such as counterinsurgency. In these games, a mitigator attempts to minimize the …

The question of how to influence people in a large social system is a perennial problem in
marketing, politics, and publishing. It differs from more personal inter-agent interactions that …

This paper considers the nonlethal targeting assignment problem in the counterinsurgency
in Afghanistan, the problem of deciding on the people whom US forces should engage …

Many strategic actions carry a 'contagious' component beyond the immediate locale of the
effort itself. Viral marketing and peacekeeping operations have both been observed to have …

This thesis considers the problem of optimally influencing social networks in Afghanistan as
part of ongoing counterinsurgency efforts. The social network is analyzed using a discrete …

Maximizing product adoption within a customer social network under a constrained
advertising budget is an important special case of the general influence maximization …

To date, the intention-centered methodology has been dominating the research on a mental
state model for agents. In the paper after briefly analyzing shortcomings of the intention …

It is an interesting problem in a social system investigating how to affect a large number of
people by just investing on a minority of them. This problem, ie, influence maximization, is …

In counterinsurgency, agent networks are double-edged swords. They are useful tools for
degrading insurgent influence and protecting the population. However, they also endanger …