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🗣 Ali Faqeeh,
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Limerick and Indiana University, Bloomington

Title: Modelling and analysis of spreading processes in social platforms

Abstract:
The spreading processes appear on social systems in various forms, from the spread of diseases among civilians to information diffusion and dissemination of ideas, opinions or attitudes. The behavior of each of these phenomena is drawn from a rather complex set of characteristics of the agents (people) in the social system and also impacted by properties of the system such as the connection patterns between the individuals (i.e., the network structure) and the function and characteristics of the dynamics.

In this seminar, I discuss our recent studies on social spreading processes, each of which concerns an interesting aspect of such phenomena. Firstly, I describe our recent analysis of the dissemination of scientific research using the body of the text of more than 230,000 publications. Then I talk about our analysis and modelling of information propagation on Twitter and show how similarity of users’ interests affects the diffusion of twits. Lastly, I introduce a new efficient metric for determining the most influential spreaders for various types of spreading processes that operate on social networks.

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