MSc Thesis Proposal Announcement by Sarvnaz Sadeghi: "Study Opinion Dynamics of Migrated Individuals using Muti-layer Social Graphs "

 

Date: Monday February 7th, 2022  

Time:  1:00 PM – 2:00 PM   

Meeting URL:    https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81338884966?from=addon 

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Human migration is one of the challenging issues facing today's world. It can happen for different reasons and at different levels, from one country to another or between societies. As a result of social collaboration and knowledge exchange, a migrant’s opinion about a topic can change over time. These collaborations lead to network evolution, which affects each individual's decisions in society. In this thesis, we propose a novel computational model to study the opinion dynamics of a migrated individual in a multi-layer social network.  

In this model, an individual migrates from one society to another with different beliefs and values. Each individual is able to take actions and has different opinions regarding various topics. We use Social Network Analysis (SNA) to investigate the opinion evolution of the migrated individual. A new algorithm is proposed for Social Influence in which the migrated individual is under the effect of their neighbors’ opinions, actions, and their previous and new society’s social norms. Over time, the migrated individual tries to adapt to the new society by receiving feedback from their actions. The aim of this model is to investigate the effect of different factors in a social network on a migrated individual’s opinions and actions. In the end, we conduct experiments in various scenarios to evaluate our model. 

 

Keywords: Opinion dynamics, social network analysis, multi layer graphs, migration 

 

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