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Turning Caregivers into Informed Agents as a Strategy to Disseminate Scientific Information About Cancer

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This paper reports on a case study at the National Cancer Institute (INCan), Mexico. Applied research in complex networks was conducted in order to tackle the problem of how to spread scientific information on cancer among economically and educationally disadvantaged social groups. The proposed model is based on a generalization of Axelrod’s Cultural Dissemination Model, with a bounded opinion formation, public authority model and a target culture. Informed agents were introduced in a social network in order to influence the culture in the network towards the scientific target culture, we analyze this dynamics within four different network topologies. We found that turning caregivers into informed agents is an actionable strategy highly dependent on the network’s topology. KEYWORDS: informed agents, information dissemination, applied complex networks, cancer.

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ARC acknowledges support from the National Council on Science and Technology, through the Program Catedras Conacyt 479. FRA thanks the Centre for Complexity Science (C3), UNAM for hosting him as visiting researcher.

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  1. National Council on Science and Technology Assigned to the National Cancer Institute, 14080, Mexico City, Mexico

    Ali Ruiz Coronel

  2. Department of Complexity Science, Autonomous University of Mexico, 03100, Mexico City, Mexico

    Fernando Ramirez Alatriste

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  1. Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  2. Faculty of Computers and Information, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

    Ahmad Taher Azar

  3. School of Computing, Science and Engineering, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK

    Tarek Gaber

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Computing and IT, Faculty of Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Roheet Bhatnagar

  5. Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

    Mohamed F. Tolba

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Coronel, A.R., Alatriste, F.R. (2020). Turning Caregivers into Informed Agents as a Strategy to Disseminate Scientific Information About Cancer. In: Hassanien, A., Azar, A., Gaber, T., Bhatnagar, R., F. Tolba, M. (eds) The International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA2019). AMLTA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 921. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14118-9_92

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