CONTEXT Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies are expected to help
transform current agricultural systems towards sustainability. To enable and steer …

Abstract Information cascades are important dynamical processes in complex networks. An
information cascade can describe the spreading dynamics of rumour, disease, memes, or …

“Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and
possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy.”—Kirkus Reviews Editors' …

Abstract In 1997, Robert Axelrod wondered in a highly influential paper" If people tend to
become more alike in their beliefs, attitudes, and behavior when they interact, why do not all …

In social network group decision making (SNGDM), the consensus reaching process (CRP)
is used to help decision makers with social relationships reach consensus. Many CRP …

Opinion dynamics is a fusion process of individual opinions, in which a group of interacting
agents continuously fuse their opinions on the same issue based on established fusion rules …

Recent years have witnessed a significant trend towards filling the gap between Social
Network Analysis (SNA) and control theory. This trend was enabled by the introduction of …

Statistical physics has proven to be a fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the
realm of traditional physics. Recent years have witnessed an attempt by physicists to study …

Agent-based simulation has become increasingly popular as a modeling approach in the
social sciences because it enables researchers to build models where individual entities …

This study aims to understand public discussions regarding COVID-19 vaccine on Parler, a
newer social media platform that recently gained in popularity. Through analyzing a random …