One method of viral marketing involves seeding certain consumers within a population to encourage faster adoption of the product throughout the entire population. However, determi...
We discuss the use of social networks in implementing viral marketing strategies. While influence maximization has been studied in this context (see Chapter 24 of [10]), we study ...
Jason D. Hartline, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Mukund Sunda...
We present an efficient and robust algorithm for finding points of collision between time-dependent parametric and implicit surfaces. The algorithm detects simultaneous collisio...
John M. Snyder, Adam R. Woodbury, Kurt W. Fleische...
Background: Accurate methods for extraction of meaningful patterns in high dimensional data have become increasingly important with the recent generation of data types containing ...
Brandon W. Higgs, Jennifer W. Weller, Jeffrey L. S...
Quality control and resource optimization are challenging problems in peer-assisted video streaming systems, due to their large scales and unreliable peer behavior. Such systems a...