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WSDM
2012
ACM
254views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
Maximizing product adoption in social networks
One of the key objectives of viral marketing is to identify a small set of users in a social network, who when convinced to adopt a product will influence others in the network l...
Smriti Bhagat, Amit Goyal 0002, Laks V. S. Lakshma...
KDD
2003
ACM
269views Data Mining» more  KDD 2003»
14 years 8 months ago
Maximizing the spread of influence through a social network
Models for the processes by which ideas and influence propagate through a social network have been studied in a number of domains, including the diffusion of medical and technolog...
David Kempe, Jon M. Kleinberg, Éva Tardos
SODA
2010
ACM
214views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Amplified Hardness of Approximation for VCG-Based Mechanisms
If a two-player social welfare maximization problem does not admit a PTAS, we prove that any maximal-in-range truthful mechanism that runs in polynomial time cannot achieve an app...
Shaddin Dughmi, Hu Fu, Robert Kleinberg
SODA
2010
ACM
164views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Differentially Private Approximation Algorithms
Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Approximation algorithms for allocation problems: Improving the factor of 1 - 1/e
Combinatorial allocation problems require allocating items to players in a way that maximizes the total utility. Two such problems received attention recently, and were addressed ...
Uriel Feige, Jan Vondrák