Institute for Data, Systems, and Society: Recent submissions

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    • Digital trade coin: towards a more stable digital currency 

      Lipton, Alex; Hardjono, Thomas; Pentland, Alex (Royal Society Open Science, 2018-07-18)
      We study the evolution of ideas related to creation of asset-backed currencies over the last 200 years and argue that recent developments related to distributed ledger technologies and blockchains give asset-backed currencies ...

    • Optimizing targeted vaccination across cyber–physical networks: an empirically based mathematical simulation stud 

      Mones, Enys; Stopczynski, Arkadiusz; Pentland, Alex; Hupert, Nathaniel; Lehmann, Sune (Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2018-01-03)
      Targeted vaccination, whether to minimize the forward transmission of infectious diseases or their clinical impact, is one of the ‘holy grails’ of modern infectious disease outbreak response, yet it is difficult to achieve ...

    • How Physical Proximity Shapes Complex Social Networks 

      Stopczynski, Arkadiusz; Pentland, Alex; Lehmann, Sune (Scientific Reports, 2018-12-07)
      Social interactions among humans create complex networks and – despite a recent increase of online communication – the interactions mediated through physical proximity remain a fundamental way for people to connect. A ...