Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

Almaatouq, Abdullah, Alejandro Noriega-Campero, Abdulrahman Alotaibi, P. M. Krafft, Mehdi Moussaid, and Alex Pentland. "Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2020, 201917687; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1917687117.

Leng, Yan. Collective Behavior over Social Networks with Data-driven and Machine Learning Models. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.

N. Oliver, et al.(2020) Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle, Science Advances, pp.1-10. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc0764

Epstein, Ziv, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand. "Will the crowd game the algorithm? Using layperson judgments to combat misinformation on social media by downranking distrusted sources." (2019).

M. Salganik, et al (2020) Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (15), pp. 8398-8403 DOI:10.1073/pnas.1915006117

Somin, S., Altshuler, Y., Gordon, G., Pentland, A., Shmueli, E. (2020).Network Dynamics of a Financial Ecosystem. Scientific Reports 10, 4587, pp.1-10.

Noriega Campero, A. (2019). Human and Artificial Intelligence in Decision Systems for Social Development (Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Berke, Alex, Calacci, Dan, Larson, Kent, Pentland, Alex (Sandy), "The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good," arXiv.org, 2019.

Rahwan, Iyad, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, et al. “Machine Behaviour.” Nature 568, no. 7753 (April 2019): 477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y.

Castello Ferrer, E., Hardjono, T., Pentland, Alex ('Sandy'). (2019, April 22). Secure and secret cooperation of robotic swarms by using Merkle trees. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09266

Khawalid, A., Acristinii, D., van Toor, H., & Castelló Ferrer, E. (2019). Grex: A Decentralized Hive Mind. Ledger, 4. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2019.176

Kapitonov, A., Lonshakov, S., Berman, I., Castelló Ferrer, E., Bonsignorio, F., Bulatov, V., & Svistov, A. (2019). Robotic Services for New Paradigm Smart Cities Based on Decentralized Technologies. Ledger, 4. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2019.177

Castelló Ferrer, E., Hardjono, T., & Pentland, A. (2019). Editorial: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab, 5 December 2018. Ledger, 4. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2019.179

Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.

A. L. Alfeo et al., "Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management," 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, pp. 4233-4240.

T. Nishikata, T. Hardjono and A. Pentland, Social Capital Accounting, October 2018.

Noriega-Campero, A., Bakker, M., Garcia-Bulle, B., & Pentland, A. (2018). Active Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making. arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00031.

Sun, Huaiyi Cici, Dan Calacci, and Alex Sandy Pentland. "Patterns of Interaction Predict Social Role in Online Learning."

Hao H, Zhang K. The Voice of Chinese Health Consumers: A Text Mining Approach to Web-Based Physician Reviews. J Med Internet Res 2016;18(5):e108. URL: https://www.jmir.org/2016/5/e108. DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4430

Volker Strobel, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, and Marco Dorigo. 2018. Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario. In Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 10–15, 2018, IFAAMAS

Murata, Y. AlSalamah, S. A. AlSalamah, H. A. Quero, G. Gheorghiu, B. Ossebaard, H. C. (Eds.). (2018). The Tenth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine (eTELEMED). Rome, Italy. IARIA XPS Press.

H Hao, R Padman, B Sun, R Telang. Information Systems Research, 2018, 29(1), pp. 25–41. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2017.0746

Balsa-Barreiro, José and Dieter Fritsch. 2018. Generation of visually aesthetic and detailed 3D models of historical cities by using laser scanning and digital photogrammetry. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 8: 57-64.

Eduardo Castello Ferrer, Ognjen Rudovic, Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland, “RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction” eTELEMED 2018.

Alsalamah, S., Alsalamah, H., Gray, A. W., & Hilton, J. (2018). Information Security Threats in Patient-Centred Healthcare. In Information Management Association (Ed.), Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1531-1552). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-3926-1.ch077.

Remo Manuel Frey, Gabriel A. Miller, Alexander Ilic, Elgar Fleisch, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland. 2017. Wild Animals in Daily Life. 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017), Seoul, South Korea

Remo Manuel Frey, Thomas Hardjono, Christian Smith, Keeley Erhardt, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland. 2017. Secure Sharing of Geospatial Wildlife Data. 4th International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data (GeoRich’17), Chicago, IL, USA

Peter Krafft, Kaitlyn Zhou, Isabelle Edwards, Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro. (2017). Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Haijing Hao, Kunpeng Zhang, Weiguang Wang, Gordon Gao. A tale of two countries: International comparison of online doctor reviews between China and the United States. International Journal of Medical Informatics. Volume 99, 2017, Pages 37-44, ISSN 1386-5056, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2016.12.007.

Peter Krafft, Michael Macy, Sandy Pentland. (2017). Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics. The 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).

An empirical study of opinion leader effects on mobile technology implementation by physicians in an American community health system. Haijing Hao and Rema Padman. Health Informatics Journal. First Published December 21, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458216675499

Ali Nahm, Sandy Pentland, Peter Krafft. (2016). Inferring Population Preferences via Mixtures of Spatial Voting Models. The 8th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo).

Almaatouq, A., Prieto-Castrillo, F. and Pentland, A., 2016, November. Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment. In International Conference on Social Informatics (pp. 407-418). Springer International Publishing.

Y. Leng, A. Noriega, A.S. Pentland, I. Winder, N. Lutz, L. Alonso: "Analysis of Tourism Dynamics and Special Events through Mobile Phone Metadata". 2016. Proceedings of Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2016. New York, NY.

Y. Leng, L. Rudolph, A.S. Pentland, J. Zhao, H.N. Koutsopolous: "Managing travel demand: Location recommendation for system eciency based on mobile phone data". 2016. Proceedings of Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2016. New York, NY.

Peter Krafft, Julia Zheng, Wei Pan, Nicolás Della Penna, Yaniv Altshuler, Erez Shmueli, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Alex Pentland. (2016). Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference. arXiv:1608.01987.

Castelló Ferrer E. (2019) The Blockchain: A New Framework for Robotic Swarm Systems. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham

Greenwood, D. (2016, July 11). Law Itself is the Killer Blockchain App. Retrieved March, from https://computationallaw.org/law-itself-is-the-killer-blockchain-app-5ccf7d86d8d8

Almaatouq, A. (2016). Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08562. Chicago

Almaatouq, Abdullah, Erez Shmueli, Mariam Nouh, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, Vivek K. Singh, Mansour Alsaleh, Abdulrahman Alarifi, and Anas Alfaris. "If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts." International Journal of Information Security 15, no. 5 (2016): 475-491.

Lederman, O., Calacci, D., MacMullen, A., Fehder, D. C., Murray, F. E., & Pentland, A. ". (2016). Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics, 2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation , Washington DC, USA, June 28-July 1, 2016.

Elisa Celis, Peter Krafft, and Nathan Kobe. (2016). Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems. The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

Krafft, Peter M., Chris L. Baker, Alex "Sandy" Pentland, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2016). Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination. The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Lederman, O. "Hacking Innovation - Group Dynamics in Innovation Teams"

de Montjoye Y.-A. "Computational Privacy: Towards Privacy-Conscientious Uses of Metadata"

Peter Krafft, Robert Hawkins, Alex Pentland, Noah Goodman, and Joshua Tenenbaum. (2015). Emergent Collective Sensing in Human Groups. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci).

Hao H The Development of Online Doctor Reviews in China: An Analysis of the Largest Online Doctor Review Website in China. J Med Internet Res 2015;17(6):e134. URL: https://www.jmir.org/2015/6/e134. DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4365

Aleissa, Faisal, et al. "Wired to connect: analyzing human communication and information sharing behavior during extreme events." Proceedings of the 2014 KDD Workshop on Learning about Emergencies from Social Information (KDD-LESI 2014). 2014.

Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam." Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science. ACM, 2014.

Mani, A. "Bilateral Exchanges in Social Networks and the Design of Public Institutions"

Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "A malicious activity detection system utilizing predictive modeling in complex environments." 2014 IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). IEEE, 2014. APA

Krumme, K. "How Predictable modeling rates of change in individuals and populations"

Wen Dong, Bruno Lepri, Taemie Kim, Fabio Pianesi, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Y. Altshuler, W. Pan, A. Pentland

Wen Dong, Katherine Heller, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Y. Altshuler, M. Fire, N. Aharony, Y. Elovici, A. Pentland

Wen Dong, Katherine Heller, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Wen Dong, Bruno Lepri, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland