Abstract. Firms’ conjectures about demand are consequential in oligopoly games. Through agent-based modeling of consumers’ search for products, we can study the rationing of de...
The efficiency at which governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are able to respond to a crisis and provide relief to victims has gained increased attention. This emp...
Given a network, we are interested in ranking sets of nodes that score highest on user-specified criteria. For instance in graphs from bibliographic data (e.g. PubMed), we would l...
The World Wide Web is a potentially valuable source of information about the cognitive characteristics of cultural groups. However, attempts to use the Web in the context of cultur...
Paul R. Smart, Winston R. Sieck, Nigel R. Shadbolt
The study of communities in social networks has attracted considerable interest from many disciplines. Most studies have focused on static networks, and in doing so, have neglected...
Public health-related topics are difficult to identify in large conversational datasets like Twitter. This study examines how to model and discover public health topics and themes ...
Kyle W. Prier, Matthew S. Smith, Christophe G. Gir...
Information visualization is a powerful tool for analyzing the dynamic nature of social communities. Using Nation of Neighbors community network as a testbed, we propose five prin...
We use 3 Waves of the Add Health data collected between 1994 and 2002 to conduct a longitudinal study of the relationship between social marginalization and the weight status of ad...