In this project the following five major achievement are made. 1) Two kinds of information diffusion models incorporating asynchronous time delay and a method to select models that better explains the observation, 2) a method to learn and predict opinion share using a variant of voter model, 3) a method to detect changes in opinion share, 4) a method to detect changes in diffusion probability, and 5) a method to ...
The project explored mathematical models to explain, control and visualize a wide variety of information diffusion processes. The main results are the following six: 1) A very efficient method for minimizing the propagation of undesirable things by blocking a limited number of links in a network. 2) An effective visualization method for understanding a complex network, in particular its dynamical aspect such as information diffusion process. 3) A new scheme ...