SimSoM onboarding - btrantruong/carisma-simulator GitHub Wiki

Reference materials

• SimSom is a minimal model of information-sharing on a social media platform. It supports agent-based modeling to study scenarios where data is not available, such as network manipulation, or moderation.
• This vulnerabilities-paper describes how SimSom works, and provides a use-case that examines the effects of network manipulation
  • codebase-simsom
• The model was also extended to study the effects of regulation, showing that Delayed takedown of illegal content on social media makes moderation ineffective
  • codebase-simsom-removal
• The model is under development so that it can run efficiently networks of up to million nodes with multi-processing. In particular, we use Message Passing Interface mpi4py, a framework to run code on parallel computers.
  • codebase-carisma-hpc (under development)
  • architecture-carisma-hpc
  • MPI4py tutorial
  • mpi course by the Stuttgart HPC Center

It would be great to go through all the material, but if you prefer to dive right in, I suggest the following reading order

1. At least the Intro & Methods of the vulnerabilities-paper
2. codebase-simsom, especially the example folder and libs/simsom/model.py
3. architecture-carisma-hpc
4. codebase-carisma-hpc