We study a model of online news dissemination on a Twitter-like social network. Given a news item and its credibility, agents with heterogeneous priors strategically decide whether to share the news with their followers. An agent shares the news, if the news can persuade her followers to take an...

In this paper, we study a model of online news dissemination on a Twitter-like social network. Given a noisy observation of the state of the world henceforth called the news, agents with heterogeneous priors decide whether to share with their followers based on whether receiving the news can...

We study the formation of a subscription network where a continuum of strategic, Bayesian subscribers decide to subscribe to one of two sources (leaders) for news that is informative about an underlying state of the world. The leaders, aiming to maximize the welfare of all subscribers, have a...

We develop a game-theoretic model to study the subscription choices of subscribers with diverse ideological perspectives between two opposing news media (intermediaries) who are motivated to influence the public opinion through their roles of news verification and selective disclosure. The...

The 100kW high concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) system has been constructed in October 2007 at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER), Taiwan. The maximum module efficiency with a geometrical concentration ratio of 476× is about 26.1% under 850W/m2 DNI and passive cooling conditions...