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The diffusion of energy technologies is key for supporting the energy transition. While social influence and peer effects have been extensively studied on the demand side and found to impact adoption, less focus has been given to the role of information ne ...

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Natural Language Processing (NLP) driven categorisation and detection of discourse in historical US patents

Jérôme Baudry, Nicolas Christophe Chachereau, Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan, Prakhar Gupta

Patents have traditionally been used in the history of technology as an indication of the thinking process of the inventors, of the challenges or “reverse salients” they faced, or of the social groups influencing the construction of technology. More recent ...

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A Laplacian approach to stubborn agents and their role in opinion formation on influence networks

Within the framework of a simple model for social influence, the Taylor model, we analytically investigate the role of stubborn agents in the overall opinion dynamics of networked systems. Similar to zealots, stubborn agents are biased towards a certain op ...

2020

Exponential Collapse Of Social Beliefs Over Weakly-Connected Heterogeneous Networks

Ali H. Sayed, Augusto José Rabelo Almeida Santos

We consider a distributed social learning problem where a network of agents is interested in selecting one among a finite number of hypotheses. The data collected by the agents might be heterogeneous, meaning that different sub-networks might observe data ...

IEEE2019

Message Distortion in Information Cascades

Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligoric

Information diffusion is usually modeled as a process in which immutable pieces of information propagate over a network. In reality, however, messages are not immutable, but may be morphed with every step, potentially entailing large cumulative distortions ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Neuronal Representation of Social Information in the Medial Amygdala of Awake Behaving Mice

Alexander Mathis

The medial amygdala (MeA) plays a critical role in processing species- and sex-specific signals that trigger social and defensive behaviors. However, the principles by which this deep brain structure encodes social information is poorly understood. We used ...

2017

Let Your Body Speak: Communicative Cue Extraction on Natural Interaction Using RGBD Data

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Employment interviews are relevant scenarios for the study of social interaction. In this setting, social skills play an important role, even though the interactions between potential employers and candidates are often limited. One fundamental aspect of so ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Latent Social Information in Group Interactions with a Shared Workspace

Himanshu Verma

Shared artifacts, such as drawings and schemas on whiteboards, sticky-notes with ideas on walls, are often created and interacted with during meetings. These shared artifacts a) facilitate the expression of complex fleeting ideas, b) enable collaborators t ...

EPFL2015

Eliciting Truthful Information with the Peer Truth Serum

Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca, Goran Radanovic

We consider settings where a collective intelligence is formed by aggregating information contributed from many independent agents, such as product reviews, community sensing or opinion polls. To encourage participation and avoid selection bias, agents sho ...

2014

Identifying Influential Scholars in Academic Social Media Platforms

Denis Gillet, Na Li

The emergence of social media has created new ways to publish scientific work, foster collaboration, and build professional connections in the research community. The rich data collected in social media platforms has provided new opportunities for assessin ...

2013

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