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SUBMITTER: Singh P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3728590 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Singh P P Sreenivasan S S Szymanski B K BK Korniss G G
Scientific reports 20130101
A classical model for social-influence-driven opinion change is the threshold model. Here we study cascades of opinion change driven by threshold model dynamics in the case where multiple initiators trigger the cascade, and where all nodes possess the same adoption threshold ϕ. Specifically, using empirical and stylized models of social networks, we study cascade size as a function of the initiator fraction p. We find that even for arbitrarily high value of ϕ, there exists a critical initiator f ...[more]