Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

Opinion dynamics have attracted the interest of researchers from different fields. Local
interactions among individuals create interesting dynamics for the system as a whole. Such …

This article addresses questions of ideological polarization and the filter bubble in social
media. It develops a theoretical analysis of ideological polarization on social media by …

The wide availability of user-provided content in online social media facilitates the
aggregation of people around common interests, worldviews, and narratives. However, the …

The viral spread of digital misinformation has become so severe that the World Economic
Forum considers it among the main threats to human society. This spread have been …

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 …

Background Vaccine hesitancy has been recognized as a major global health threat. Having
access to any type of information in social media has been suggested as a potential …

Recent findings showed that users on Facebook tend to select information that adhere to
their system of beliefs and to form polarized groups–ie, echo chambers. Such a tendency …

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 …

The large availability of user provided contents on online social media facilitates people
aggregation around shared beliefs, interests, worldviews and narratives. In spite of the …