Distinguishing mechanisms of social contagion from local network view

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Distinguishing mechanisms of social contagion from local network view
المؤلفون: Andres, Elsa, Ódor, Gergely, Iacopini, Iacopo, Karsai, Márton
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computers and Society
الوصف: The adoption of individual behavioural patterns is largely determined by stimuli arriving from peers via social interactions or from external sources. Based on these influences, individuals are commonly assumed to follow simple or complex adoption rules, inducing social contagion processes. In reality, multiple adoption rules may coexist even within the same social contagion process, introducing additional complexity into the spreading phenomena. Our goal is to understand whether coexisting adoption mechanisms can be distinguished from a microscopic view, at the egocentric network level, without requiring global information about the underlying network, or the unfolding spreading process. We formulate this question as a classification problem, and study it through a Bayesian likelihood approach and with random forest classifiers in various synthetic and data-driven experiments. This study offers a novel perspective on the observations of propagation processes at the egocentric level and a better understanding of landmark contagion mechanisms from a local view.
Comment: 25 pages, 11 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18519
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2406.18519
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv