Yes! We got the best paper award during the 2020 Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining! Our paper entitled Disconnecting for the good: A network-oriented model for social contagion of opinions and social network interventions to increase adherence to social distancing presents our study on how social network topologies and public health agencies […]
A new article was published on how the new coronavirus spreads in a socioeconomic inequality context in Brazil. The work was a partnership between LNCC, UFLA, UnB and researchers from the Brazilian Army. An Agent-based Model was created and census data was used to insert real information about the population and its relevant characteristics for […]
The work in partnership with researchers from the VU Amsterdam and the Radboud University resulted in our newly released paper entitled “Identifying Influence Agents That Promote Physical Activity Through the Simulation of Social Network Interventions: Agent-Based Modeling Study“. The aim of this study is to test which selection criterion to determine influence agents in a […]
The work entitled A Social Network Model for Integration of Refugees was accepted for the Simultech 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic. The work presents a model based on homophily and social network dynamics to explain how is the integration of refugees in a new society based on personal traits like educational level and religiousness. […]