Information Competition Simulator

Team

• Michael Huhns, UofSC
• Vignesh Narayanan, UofSC
• Biplav Srivastava, UofSC

Overview

Examining the dynamics of information dissemination and the formation of opinions within networks holds significant importance. The overarching goal of this project is to construct a versatile and authentic simulator (i.e., a “digital twin”), designed to comprehend the propagation of information in dynamic environments. The project integrates theories of multi-agent systems and dynamic planning with knowledge graphs to build an interpretable and dynamic information environment.

Selected Products

• Muppasani, B., Nag, P., Narayanan, V., Srivastava, B. and Huhns, M., 2024. Towards Effective Planning Strategies for Dynamic Opinion Networks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37, pp.137046–137104.
• Muppasani, B., Narayanan, V., Srivastava, B. and Huhns, M.N., 2024. Expressive and flexible simulation of information spread strategies in social networks using planning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 38, No. 21, pp. 23820–23822). 🏆 Best Demo Award
• Narayanan, V., Muppasani, B., Paladi, S.T., Srivastava, B. and Huhns, M., 2023. Modeling and steering multi-dimensional opinion networks with aggregated measurements. 2023 SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems.