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Strategic Influencers and the Shaping of Beliefs

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Influencers, from propagandists to sellers, expend vast resources targeting agents who amplify their message through word‐of‐mouth communication. While agents differ in network position, they also differ in their bias: Agents may naturally read articles with a particular slant or buy products from a certain seller.
Akhil Vohra
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying functionally equivalent species and ecological network dissimilarity with optimal transport distances

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Quantifying the structure and dynamics of species interactions in ecological communities is fundamental to studying ecology and evolution. While there are numerous approaches to analysing ecological networks, there is not yet an approach that can (1) quantify dissimilarity in the global structure of ecological networks that range from ...
Kai M. Hung   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the diversity of test instances for studying branch‐and‐bound performance

open access: yesAustralian &New Zealand Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Summary In their paper ‘An Automatic Method for Solving Discrete Programming Problems’, Ailsa Land and Alison Doig developed a branch‐and‐bound method for solving the general case of the mixed integer linear programming (MIP) problem. A core part of the algorithm, branch variable selection, has received renewed attention in recent years with the ...
Simon Bowly, Kate Smith‐Miles
wiley   +1 more source

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