154002 The Anatomy of Social Media Popularity

Abstract

The contractor shall investigate how video s go viral (if, when and how). This project aims to understand the evolution of popularity over time, by learning generative models for the rise and fall of popularity, by designing and testing predictive models that connects content virality, user actions, and external events, and by deriving optimization strategies for "popularity intervention" - interventions that aims to increase or decrease popularity.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Mar 23, 2016
Source ID
FA23861514018

Entities

People

  • Lexing Xie

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Australian National University
  • United States Air Force

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks