We introduce a general stochastic model for the spread of rumours, and derive mean-field equations that describe the dynamics of the model on complex social networks (in particula...
Maziar Nekovee, Yamir Moreno, G. Bianconi, M. Mars...
A geographic search request contains a query consisting of one or more keywords, and a search-location that the user searches for. In this paper, we study the problem of discoveri...
We examine several online matching problems, with applications to Internet advertising reservation systems. Consider an edge-weighted bipartite graph G, with partite sets L, R. We...
The ability to pinpoint the geographic location of IP hosts is compelling for applications such as on-line advertising and network attack diagnosis. While prior methods can accurat...
Brian Eriksson, Paul Barford, Joel Sommers, Robert...
Various online studies on the prevalence of spyware attest overwhelming numbers (up to 80%) of infected home computers. However, the term spyware is ambiguous and can refer to anyt...
Andreas Stamminger, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni ...