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 …

In group decision-making, the expressed opinion of a social individual may be inconsistent
with or even opposite to his/her own private opinion or inner thought. Expressed and private …

The ecosystem services (EcoS) concept is being used increasingly to attach values to
natural systems and the multiple benefits they provide to human societies. Ecosystem …

We study the issue of polarization in society through a model of opinion formation. We say
an opinion formation process is polarizing if it results in increased divergence of opinions …

We say that a population is perfectly polarized when divided in two groups of the same size
and opposite opinions. In this paper, we propose a methodology to study and measure the …

We present a model of online content sharing where agents sequentially observe an article
and decide whether to share it with others. This content may or may not contain …

We study how the structure of social media networks and the presence of fake news affects
the degree of misinformation and polarization in a society. For that, we analyze a dynamic …

We study the effect of social media on xenophobic attitudes in Russia. We build a model
where social media increases the likelihood of meeting like-minded people locally and in …

The coordination and control of social systems is the foundational problem of sociology. The
discipline was established in Europe in the aftermath of the American and French …

We study binary opinion dynamics in a social network with stubborn agents who influence
others but do not change their opinions. We focus on a generalization of the classical voter …