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  • Social Network Analysis
  • Computational Social Science
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Social networks are key to information, epidemic, and behavior spread.
  • Interest in social influence and spread dynamics is rapidly growing.
  • A comprehensive review of this field is lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a comprehensive review of social influence and spread dynamics.
  • To synthesize current empirical studies and computational experiments.
  • To offer insights into personal influence and spread patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Review of significant empirical studies on real social systems.
  • Description of macro- and micro-level social models.
  • Emphasis on computational experiments for validation.

Main Results:

  • Presentation of network construction methods and measures.
  • Summary of empirical results from real social systems.
  • Highlighting of current research in computational experiments.

Conclusions:

  • The paper offers insights into personal influence and spread patterns.
  • Understanding spread dynamics in large-scale social systems is crucial.
  • Bridging real data and simulations is key for validation.