News tagged with networking model

Why rumors spread fast in social networks

Information spreads fast in social networks. This could be observed during recent events. Now computer scientists from the German Saarland University provide the mathematical proof for this and come up with a surprising explanation.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (35) | comments 49 | with audio podcast

Religion on the verge of extinction in many countries: math study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study recently released by a team from Northwestern University and the University of Arizona shows that religion and religious affiliations may be on the verge of extinction in the nine ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (51) | comments 557 | with audio podcast report

Study shows bandwidth caps create user uncertainty, risky decisions

Recently, many U.S. Internet service providers have fallen in line with their international counterparts in capping monthly residential broadband usage. A new study by a Georgia Tech researcher, conducted ...

Technology / Telecom

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

How to control complex networks

At first glance, a diagram of the complex network of genes that regulate cellular metabolism might seem hopelessly complex, and efforts to control such a system futile.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Boys will infect boys, swine flu study shows

Boys predominantly pass on flu to other boys and girls to girls, according to a new study of how swine flu spread in a primary school during the 2009 pandemic, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Ac ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Whether tweets live or die depends more on network, competition for attention than message or user influence

On the global social media stage, it's not so much the message but rather network structure and competition for attention that determine whether a meme becomes popular and shows staying power or whether it ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Analyzing almost 10 million tweets, research finds public mood can predict Dow days in advance

Measurements of the collective public mood derived from millions of tweets can predict the rise and fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average up to a week in advance with an accuracy approaching 90 percent, ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Yahoo! accuses Facebook of patent infringement (Update)

Yahoo! filed suit against Facebook in a California court on Monday accusing the social networking giant of infringing on 10 patents held by the Internet pioneer.

Technology / Business

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

How the Internet architecture got its hourglass shape and what that means for the future

In the natural world, species that share the same ecosystem often compete for resources, resulting in the extinction of weaker competitors. A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet's ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Random network connectivity can be delayed, but with explosive results, new study finds

In the life of many successful networks, the connections between elements increase over time. As connections are added, there comes a critical moment when the network's overall connectivity rises rapidly with ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Online activity grows in a similar pattern to those of real-life networks

The activity of online communities does not grow in line with the number of users, according to a model recently published in the European Physical Journal B.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Networking' turns up flu viruses with close ties to pandemic of 2009

Scientists using new mathematical and computational techniques have identified six influenza A viruses that have particularly close genetic relationships to the H1N1 "swine" flu virus that swept through the United States ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Computer science researchers provide insight into how we understand social networking

The rise of social media has allowed people to connect and re-connect with friends, colleagues and family from across the world. A new paper by University of Minnesota computer scientists in the College of Science and Engineering ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Model finds optimal fiber optic network connections 10,000 times more quickly

Designing fiber optic networks involves finding the most efficient way to connect phones and computers that are in different places – a costly and time-consuming process. Now researchers from North Carolina State University ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast