Conveners
S5: S5
- Janusz Hołyst (Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology)
The talk reports our search for a flexible formulation of the process of removal of cognitive dissonance when identifying enemies and friends. The list of methods includes sets of nonlinear differential equations and cellular automata with different neighborhoods. Results are described on the balanced-imbalanced phase transition on networks of different topology, jammed and dynamic states...
Lots of people get information from social media, where users can exchange messages. In most cases, content transmits without any changes. Sometimes, users modify form or content of the message before passing it on. Understanding the mechanism of message mutation could allow us to become more resistant to misinformation and better identify fake news.
We propose a simple model in which...
A realistic description of the social processes leading to the increasing reluctance to various vaccination forms is a very challenging task. This is due to the complexity of the psychological and social mechanisms determining the individual and group positioning versus vaccination and the associated activities. Understanding the role played by social media and the Internet in the current...
The COVID-19 outbreak has so far caused millions of cases and deaths globally. Human behaviour has been identified as the key factor in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and there is considerable interest in understanding the relationship between the way people act in response to the infection risk and the disease progress. Mathematical modelling has been at the centre of policy-making aimed...
