Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems Influence and Contagion in Real-World Social Networks /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lehmann, Sune (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ahn, Yong-Yeol (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Computational Social Sciences,
• Subjects: Physics.; Data mining.; Social sciences.; Computer simulation.; Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Simulation and Modeling.

This text is about spreading of information and influence in complex networks. Although previously considered similar and modeled in parallel approaches, there is now experimental evidence that epidemic and social spreading work in subtly different ways. While previously explored through modeling, t...