M. Amin Rahimian

University of Pitttsburgh

135 N Bellefield Ave

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

United States

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

77 Massachusetts Avenue

50 Memorial Drive

Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

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Providing normative information increases intentions to accept a COVID-19 vaccine

Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 126 (2023)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2023
Alex Moehring, Avinash Collis, Kiran Garimella, M. Amin Rahimian, Sinan Aral and Dean Eckles
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Pitttsburgh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and MIT Sloan School of Management
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COVID-19, descriptive norms, social influence, vaccine hesitancy

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When Social Influence Promotes the Wisdom of Crowds

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2021
Abdullah Almaatouq, M. Amin Rahimian, Jason W. Burton and Abdulla Alhajri
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Pitttsburgh, Birkbeck, University of London and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Wisdom of Crowds, Collective Estimation, Social Influence, Collective Intelligence

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Bayesian Decision Making in Groups is Hard

Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2020.2000
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2021
Jan Hązła, Ali Jadbabaie, Elchanan Mossel and M. Amin Rahimian
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Pitttsburgh
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Observational Learning, Bayesian Decision Theory, Computational Complexity, Group Decision-Making, Computational Social Choice, Inference over Graphs

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Seeding with Costly Network Information

Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.2290
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 23 May 2022
Dean Eckles, Hossein Esfandiari, Elchanan Mossel and M. Amin Rahimian
MIT Sloan School of Management, Google Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Pitttsburgh
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Viral marketing, influence maximization, social networks, submodular maximization, query oracle

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Long Ties Accelerate Noisy Threshold-based Contagions

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 22 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2023
Dean Eckles, Elchanan Mossel, M. Amin Rahimian and Subhabrata Sen
MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Pitttsburgh and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 74 (523,905)
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social networks, game dynamics, social contagion

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Production Networks Resilience: Cascading Failures, Power Laws and Optimal Interventions

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Apr 2023
Marios Papachristou and M. Amin Rahimian
Cornell University and University of Pitttsburgh
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production networks, resilience, contagion, interventions