In this Chapter, we discuss the effects of higher-order structures on SIS-like processes social contagion. After a brief motivational introduction where illustrate standard SIS process networks and difference between simple complex contagions, introduce spreading starting from most general formulation hypergraphs then moving to several mean-field heterogeneous approaches. The results highlight ...

in a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. they negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. thus, not only does social life depend...