The ways in which an innovation (e.g., new behaviour, idea, technology, product) diffuses among people can determine its success or failure. In this paper, we address the problem of diffusion of innovations over multiplex social networks where...

In developing countries, governments are administra tors of investment in various economic sectors. In fact the share of

government in economic system is very bigger than the private sector. Government policies ...

This is an example of a standard sociology book where JASSS readers will not find a single word on social simulation, nor reference to agent-based computational models, but has extremely useful insights to stimulate ABM research. Written by a...

The first international workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks (MAISoN'17) is to be held on February 10, 2017; co-located with the Tenth ACM International Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) Conference in Cambridge, UK. MAISoN'17...

The main idea behind social participatory sensing is to leverage social friends as crowd workers to participate in mobile sensing tasks. A main challenge, however, is the recruitment of sufficient number of well-suited participants. Contributing...

Social capital as a concept which is related to social contextand

as a new element besides other factors like environmental,

Genetic and individual factors has attracted interests of

professional and authorities in national...