Charlotte Out

2 accepted papers

2023

Why Rumors Spread Fast in Social Networks, and How to Stop It

Ahad N. Zehmakan, Charlotte Out, Sajjad Hesamipour Khelejan

IJCAI 2023poster

We study a rumor spreading model where individuals are connected via a network structure. Initially, only a small subset of the individuals are spreading a rumor. Each individual who is connected to a spreader, starts spreading the rumor with some probability as a function of their trust in the spre…

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2021

Majority Vote in Social Networks: Make Random Friends or Be Stubborn to Overpower Elites

Charlotte Out, Ahad N. Zehmakan

IJCAI 2021poster

Consider a graph G, representing a social network. Assume that initially each node is colored either black or white, which corresponds to a positive or negative opinion regarding a consumer product or a technological innovation. In the majority model, in each round all nodes simultaneously update th…

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