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ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Overlapping community detection in weighted networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00894
Over the past decade, community detection in overlapping un-weighted networks, where nodes can belong to multiple communities, has been one of the most popular topics in modern network science. However, comm...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Phase locking and multistability in the topological Kuramoto model on cell complexes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05831
The topological Kuramoto model generalizes classical synchronization models by including higher-order interactions, with oscillator dynamics defined on cells of arbitrary dime...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Inductive inference of gradient-boosted decision trees on graphs for insurance fraud detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05676
Graph-based methods are becoming increasingly popular in machine learning due to their ability to model complex data and relations. Insurance fraud is a prime use ca...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Critical thresholds in stochastic rumors on trees
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05352
The vertices of a tree represent individuals in one of three states: ignorant, spreader, or stifler. A spreader transmits the rumor to any of its nearest ignorant neighbors at rate one. At the same rate, a spre...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Collective dynamics on higher-order networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05253
Higher-order interactions that nonlinearly couple more than two nodes are ubiquitous in networked systems. Here we provide an overview of the rapidly growing field of dynamical systems with higher-order interactions...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

AgentZero++: Modeling Fear-Based Behavior
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05185
We present AgentZero++, an agent-based model that integrates cognitive, emotional, and social mechanisms to simulate decentralized collective violence in spatially distributed systems. Building on Epstein's Agent\_Zero...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Emergent Directedness in Social Contagion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06012
An enduring challenge in contagion theory is that the pathways contagions follow through social networks exhibit emergent complexities that are difficult to predict using network structure. Here, we address this challe...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Peoples Water Data: A Scalable Student-Led Methodology for Global Water Security
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05989
Peoples Water Data proves that a people-powered, open-data model can deliver reliable household water evidence at scale, driving equitable decisions, accountability, and safer wat...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Binary Option Market Manipulation by Influencing Belief Dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05785
Using techniques from information geometry, we construct a semi-Hamiltonian system modelling trader beliefs in a binary asset market and study the impact of inequality or asymmetry in beliefs, in...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Evolution of social behaviors in noisy environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05521
Evolutionary game theory offers a general framework to study how behaviors evolve by social learning in a population. This body of theory can accommodate a range of social dilemmas, or games, as well as real-...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Ethical considerations in infectious disease modelling for public health policy: the case of school closures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05146
Mathematical models of infectious diseases are frequently used as a tool to support public health policy and decisions around implementation of interve...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Functional Connectivity Networks for Transportation Delay Analysis: from Theory to Software
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05143
Within the endeavour of modelling and understanding the propagation of delays in transportation networks, an approach that has attracted increasing interest in the last...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

'Partisan Bias' is Like 'Cancer'
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05114
The colloquial phrase "partisan bias" encompasses multiple distinct conceptions of bias, including partisan advantage, packing & cracking, and partisan symmetry. All are useful and have their place, and there are several propos...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 16h

Integrating Weather and Land Cover Data into Geospatial Impact Evaluations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05108
Integrating gridded weather and earth observation data into impact evaluations holds great promise. It allows researchers to capture environmental context, external shocks, and even to ...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

Exact cluster dynamics of indirect reciprocity in complete graphs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15664
Heider's balance theory emphasizes cognitive consistency in assessing others, as is expressed by ``The enemy of my enemy is my friend.'' At the same time, the theory of indirect reciprocity prov...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

SGRDN-Data learned sparsification of graph reaction-diffusion networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11943
Graph sparsification is an area of interest in computer science and applied mathematics. Sparsification of a graph, in general, aims to reduce the number of edges in the network while prese...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

Discrete scalar curvature as a weighted sum of Ollivier-Ricci curvatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04936
We study the relationship between discrete analogues of Ricci and scalar curvature that are defined for point clouds and graphs. In the discrete setting, Ricci curvature is replaced by Ol...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

Good Intentions Beyond ACL: Who Does NLP for Social Good, and Where?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04434
The social impact of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is increasingly important, with a rising community focus on initiatives related to NLP for Social Good (NLP4SG). Indeed, in recent years...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

Internal World Models as Imagination Networks in Cognitive Agents
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04391
What is the computational objective of imagination? While classical interpretations suggest imagination is useful for maximizing rewards, recent findings challenge this view. In this study, we p...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

Panel regression for the GDP of the Central and Eastern European countries using time-varying coefficients
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04211
The integration of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries into the European Economic Area serves as a valuable experiment for the regional economic...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

Why Does the Engineering Manager Still Exist in Agile Software Development?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03920
Although Agile methodologies emphasize decentralized decision-making and team autonomy, engineering managers continue to be employed in Agile software organizations. This apparent para...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

Higher-Order Network Structure Inference: A Topological Approach to Network Selection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04884
Thresholding--the pruning of nodes or edges based on their properties or weights--is an essential preprocessing tool for extracting interpretable structure from complex netwo...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

A behavioral reinvestigation of the effect of long ties on social contagions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04785
Faced with uncertainty in decision making, individuals often turn to their social networks to inform their decisions. In consequence, these networks become central to how new products...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

Towards Hydrogen Autarky? Evaluating Import Costs and Domestic Competitiveness in European Energy Strategies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04669
The design of the future European energy system depends heavily on how Europe balances its domestic hydrogen production against its reliance on imports...📈🤖

ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 1d

Deep learning framework for predicting stochastic take-off and die-out of early spreading
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04574
Large-scale outbreaks of epidemics, misinformation, or other harmful contagions pose significant threats to human society, yet the fundamental question of whether an emer...📈🤖