High Performance Computational Social Science Modeling of Networked Populations

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dc.contributor.authorKuhlman, Christopher J.en
dc.contributor.committeechairMarathe, Madhav Vishnuen
dc.contributor.committeememberTilevich, Elien
dc.contributor.committeememberRavi, Sekharipuramen
dc.contributor.committeememberMortveit, Henning S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberVullikanti, Anil Kumar S.en
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-09T07:00:12Zen
dc.date.available2015-01-09T07:00:12Zen
dc.date.issued2013-07-17en
dc.description.abstractDynamics of social processes in populations, such as the spread of emotions, influence, opinions, and mass movements (often referred to individually and collectively as contagions), are increasingly studied because of their economic, social, and political impacts. Moreover, multiple contagions may interact and hence studying their simultaneous evolution is important. Within the context of social media, large datasets involving many tens of millions of people are leading to new insights into human behavior, and these datasets continue to grow in size. Through social media, contagions can readily cross national boundaries, as evidenced by the 2011 Arab Spring. These and other observations guide our work. Our goal is to study contagion processes at scale with an approach that permits intricate descriptions of interactions among members of a population. Our contributions are a modeling environment to perform these computations and a set of approaches to predict contagion spread size and to block the spread of contagions. Since we represent populations as networks, we also provide insights into network structure effects, and present and analyze a new model of contagion dynamics that represents a person\'s behavior in repeatedly joining and withdrawing from collective action. We study variants of problems for different classes of social contagions, including those known as simple and complex contagions.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:615en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/51175en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSocial behavioren
dc.subjectContagionsen
dc.subjectNetworksen
dc.subjectControl of contagion processesen
dc.subjectGraph dynamical systemsen
dc.subjectModeling and simulationen
dc.subjectRapid den
dc.titleHigh Performance Computational Social Science Modeling of Networked Populationsen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Science and Applicationsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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