Deep Agent: Studying the Dynamics of Information Spread and Evolution in Social Networks

Ivan Garibay; Toktam A. Oghaz; Niloofar Yousefi; Ece Çiğdem Mutlu; Madeline Schiappa; Steven Scheinert; Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos; Christina Bouwens; Stephen M. Fiore; Alexander Mantzaris; John T. Murphy; William Rand; Anastasia Salter; Mel Stanfill; Gita Sukthankar; Nisha Baral; Gabriel Fair; Chathika Gunaratne; Neda B. Hajiakhoond; Jasser Jasser; Chathura Jayalath; Olivia B. Newton; Samaneh Saadat; Chathurani Senevirathna; Rachel Winter; Xi Zhang

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77517-9_11

Deep Agent: Studying the Dynamics of Information Spread and Evolution in Social Networks

Ivan Garibay, Toktam A. Oghaz, Niloofar Yousefi, Ece Çiğdem Mutlu, Madeline Schiappa, Steven Scheinert, Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos, Christina Bouwens, Stephen M. Fiore, Alexander Mantzaris, John T. Murphy, William Rand, Anastasia Salter, Mel Stanfill, Gita Sukthankar, Nisha Baral, Gabriel Fair, Chathika Gunaratne, Neda B. Hajiakhoond, Jasser JasserChathura Jayalath, Olivia B. Newton, Samaneh Saadat, Chathurani Senevirathna, Rachel Winter, Xi Zhang

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This paper explains the design of a social network analysis framework, developed under DARPA’s SocialSim program, with novel architecture that models human emotional, cognitive, and social factors. Our framework is both theory and data-driven, and utilizes domain expertise. Our simulation effort helps understanding how information flows and evolves in social media platforms. We focused on modeling three information domains: cryptocurrencies, cyber threats, and software vulnerabilities for the three interrelated social environments: GitHub, Reddit, and Twitter. We participated in the SocialSim DARPA Challenge in December 2018, in which our models were subjected to an extensive performance evaluation for accuracy, generalizability, explainability, and experimental power. This paper reports the main concepts and models, utilized in our social media modeling effort in developing a multi-resolution simulation at the user, community, population, and content levels.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas
Editors	Zining Yang, Elizabeth von Briesen
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	153-169
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9783030775162
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77517-9_11
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas, CSSSA 2019 - Santa Fe, United States Duration: Oct 24 2019 → Oct 27 2019

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Name	Springer Proceedings in Complexity
ISSN (Print)	2213-8684
ISSN (Electronic)	2213-8692

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Conference	International Conference of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas, CSSSA 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Santa Fe
Period	10/24/19 → 10/27/19

Funding

Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under grant number FA8650-18-C-7823. The views and opinions expressed in this article are the authors’ own and should not be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the University of Central Florida, DARPA, or the U.S. Department of Defense. This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under grant number FA8650-18-C-7823. The views and opinions expressed in this article are the authors? own and should not be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the University of Central Florida, DARPA, or the U.S. Department of Defense.

Funders	Funder number
U.S. Department of Defense
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency	FA8650-18-C-7823
University of Central Florida

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Garibay, I., Oghaz, T. A., Yousefi, N., Mutlu, E. Ç., Schiappa, M., Scheinert, S., Anagnostopoulos, G. C., Bouwens, C., Fiore, S. M., Mantzaris, A., Murphy, J. T., Rand, W., Salter, A., Stanfill, M., Sukthankar, G., Baral, N., Fair, G., Gunaratne, C., Hajiakhoond, N. B., ... Zhang, X. (2021). Deep Agent: Studying the Dynamics of Information Spread and Evolution in Social Networks. In Z. Yang, & E. von Briesen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (pp. 153-169). (Springer Proceedings in Complexity). Springer Science and Business Media B.V.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77517-9_11

Garibay, Ivan ; Oghaz, Toktam A. ; Yousefi, Niloofar et al. / Deep Agent : Studying the Dynamics of Information Spread and Evolution in Social Networks. Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas. editor / Zining Yang ; Elizabeth von Briesen. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2021. pp. 153-169 (Springer Proceedings in Complexity).

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Deep Agent: Studying the Dynamics of Information Spread and Evolution in Social Networks. / Garibay, Ivan; Oghaz, Toktam A.; Yousefi, Niloofar et al.
Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas. ed. / Zining Yang; Elizabeth von Briesen. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2021. p. 153-169 (Springer Proceedings in Complexity).

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