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Logic and Computation Seminar

Monday, April 24, 2017 - 3:30pm

Fenrong Liu

Tsinghua University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

 

I will introduce a series of interesting phenomena in social networks: (a) opinion diffusion (b) social influence and (c) social relation change. Within each agent's situation, local  changes in state are characterized both by an automaton and by a dynamic operator in a certain logical language. These two ways of modeling  lead to different research questions which I will explain and show some results. Constraints are introduced when we combine the local situations to obtain a global one.  My focus will be the logic of the agent's reasoning, in particular, higher-order reasoning.  I will also show  a few simulations of the dynamics in NetLogo.This is a joint project with Jeremy Seligman.