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Information Spread in a Social Media Age

Modeling and Control

By: Michael Muhlmeyer,Shaurya Agarwal

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Information Spread in a Social Media Age

Modeling and Control

By: Michael Muhlmeyer,Shaurya Agarwal

The rise of social networks and social media has led to a massive shift in the ways information is dispersed. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook allow people to more easily connect as a community, but they can also be avenues for misinformation, fake news, and polarization. The need to examine, model, and analyze the trajectory of information spread within this new paradigm has never been greater. This text expands upon the authors’ combined teaching experience, engineering knowledge, and multiple academic journal publications on these topics to present an intuitive and easy to understand exploration of social media information spread alongside the technical and mathematical concepts. By design, this book uses simple language and accessible and modern case studies (including those centered around United States mass shootings, the #MeToo social movement, and more) to ensure it is accessible to the casual reader. At the same time, readers with prior knowledge of the topics will benefit from the mathematical model and control elements and accompanying sample simulation code for each main topic. By reading this book and working through the included exercises, readers will gain a general understanding of modern social media systems, network fundamentals, model development techniques, and social marketing. The mathematical modeling of information spread over social media is heavily emphasized through a review of existing epidemiology and marketing based models. The book then presents novel models developed by the authors to account for modern social media concerns such as community filter bubbles, strongly polarized groups, and contentious information spread. Readers will learn how to build and execute simple case studies using Twitter data to help verify the text’s proposed models. Once the reader is armed with a fundamental understanding of mathematical modeling and social media-based system considerations, the book introduces more complex engineering control concepts, including controller design, PID control, and optimal control. Examples of control methods for social campaigns and misinformation mitigation applications are covered in a step-by-step format from problem formulation to solution simulation and results discussions. While many of the examples and methods are framed in the context of controlling social media information spread, the material is also directly applicable to many different types of controllable systems. With the essential background, models, and tools presented within, any interested reader can take the first steps toward exploring and taming the growing complexity of the modern social media age.

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0429558872

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Power Bolt

By: Shaurya Sahay

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Power Bolt

By: Shaurya Sahay

At one moment, he was just an ordinary youth, the next, he was a mighty superhero! James Agarwal, a man in his early twenties living in New York city, was struck by a bolt of lightning and became more powerful than he ever could have imagined. Read along as he enters a new and unfamiliar world full of weird and unique friends, which includes a seven headed horse and an extremely powerful clairvoyant Shrui. Inevitable foes, one of which is The Hunter, a ruthless and merciless demon, fixated on conquering the entire galaxy. Will James be able to defeat the galaxy’s biggest threat as Powerbolt with the help of his new found friends, or will the entire galaxy plummet to its doom? Read on to find out…

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117

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Blue Hill Publications

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9394741070

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9789394741072

Nanofluidics and Microfluidics

Systems and Applications

By: Shaurya Prakash,Junghoon Yeom

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Nanofluidics and Microfluidics

Systems and Applications

By: Shaurya Prakash,Junghoon Yeom

To provide an interdisciplinary readership with the necessary toolkit to work with micro- and nanofluidics, this book provides basic theory, fundamentals of microfabrication, advanced fabrication methods, device characterization methods and detailed examples of applications of nanofluidics devices and systems. Case studies describing fabrication of complex micro- and nanoscale systems help the reader gain a practical understanding of developing and fabricating such systems. The resulting work covers the fundamentals, processes and applied challenges of functional engineered nanofluidic systems for a variety of different applications, including discussions of lab-on-chip, bio-related applications and emerging technologies for energy and environmental engineering. - The fundamentals of micro- and nanofluidic systems and micro- and nanofabrication techniques provide readers from a variety of academic backgrounds with the understanding required to develop new systems and applications. - Case studies introduce and illustrate state-of-the-art applications across areas, including lab-on-chip, energy and bio-based applications. - Prakash and Yeom provide readers with an essential toolkit to take micro- and nanofluidic applications out of the research lab and into commercial and laboratory applications.

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William Andrew

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1437744702

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9781437744705

Information Spread in a Social Media Age

Modeling and Control

By: Michael Muhlmeyer,Shaurya Agarwal

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Information Spread in a Social Media Age

Modeling and Control

By: Michael Muhlmeyer,Shaurya Agarwal

Introduces the topic gently and intuitively with ample famous examples and case studies Develops and explains intuitively the information flow models, and thereafter builds the control theory for information management and propagation Includes mathematical treatment of information spread and fake news epidemics and step by step development of modeling framework Discusses Control methods and application examples Borrows from multiple disciplines and sub-disciplines and tries to create a new unified structure for digital information spread and control

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