Interactive Sensing and Decision Making in Social Networks (Foundations and Trends(r) in Signal Processing) - Softcover

Krishnamurthy, Vikram; Namvar Gharehshiran, Omid; Hamdi, Maziyar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601988125 ISBN 13: 9781601988126

Publisher: Now Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

The proliferation of social media such as real time microblogging and online reputation systems facilitate real time sensing of social patterns and behavior. In the last decade, sensing and decision making in social networks have witnessed significant progress in the electrical engineering, computer science, economics, finance, and sociology research communities. Research in this area involves the interaction of dynamic random graphs, socio-economic analysis, and statistical inference algorithms. Interactive Sensing and Decision Making in Social Networks provides a survey, tutorial development, and discussion of four highly stylized examples of sensing and decision making in social networks: social learning for interactive sensing; tracking the degree distribution of social networks; sensing and information diffusion; and coordination of decision making via game-theoretic learning. Each of the four examples is motivated by practical examples, and comprises of a literature survey together with careful problem formulation and mathematical analysis. Despite being highly stylized, these examples provide a rich variety of models, algorithms and analysis tools that are readily accessible to a signal processing, control/systems theory, and applied mathematics audience

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About the Author

Vikram Krishnamurthy is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Signal Processing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His research contributions focus on nonlinear filtering, stochastic approximation algorithms and POMDPs. Dr Krishnamurthy is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and served as a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. In 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Now Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1601988125
• ISBN 13: 9781601988126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216