Eliminating interactions among individuals is an important means of blocking contagion
spread, eg, closing schools during an epidemic or shutting down electronic communication …

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 …

Insurgency emerges from many interactions between numerous social, economical, and
geographical factors. Adequately accounting for the large number of potentially relevant …

In this article, we consider a dynamic model for competition in a social network, where two
strategic agents have fixed beliefs, and the nonstrategic/regular agents adjust their states …

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 …

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 …

Identifying communities in a dark network is a potentially difficult task. The nature of dark
networks, and their characteristic of concealing connections within the network, makes …

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

Nicotine, in the form of cigarette smoking, chewing tobacco, and most recently as vapor
smoking, is one of the most heavily used addictive drugs in the world. Since smoking …

Quantitative methods for leaders' detection and overthrow are useful tools for decision-
making in many real-life social networks. In the given research, we present algorithms that …