A Simple Model of Global Cascades on Random Networks

Duncan J Watts wrote a paper that was published in 2002 titled “A simple model of global cascades on random networks” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). It’s a seminal paper in my current work on information diffusion in (social) networks. Watts shows how the interactions between local dependencies, fractional threshold, and heterogeneity relate to information cascades in networks. My work builds on these ideas, so it’s important to have a strong understanding of the terms and model specifications outlined in the paper.