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SUMMARY:Competitive Contagion in Networks - Moez Draief - Imperial College
  London
DTSTART:20140312T140000Z
DTEND:20140312T150000Z
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CONTACT:David Greaves
DESCRIPTION:There has been a growing interest\, over the past few years\, 
 in studying\nmodels of competing products/opinions on social networks. The
  question of interest is what is the impact of the first adopters of a pro
 duct on the\noutcome of a series of adoption by other nodes in the system 
 influenced by those initial nodes. More precisely\, the decision of a node
  to adopt a product is influenced by the behaviour of its neighbours in th
 e social network. This raises challenging and intriguing mathematical\, al
 gorithmic\nand game theoretic questions. In this talk\, I will present an 
 overview of\nrecent developments in this topic.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
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