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Competitive contagion in networks
We develop a game-theoretic framework for the study of competition between firms who have budgets to “seed” the initial adoption of their products by consumers located in a s...
Sanjeev Goyal, Michael Kearns
NCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
ContagAlert: Using Contagion Theory for Adaptive, Distributed Alert Propagation
Large-scale distributed systems, e.g., Grid or P2P networks, are targets for large-scale attacks. Unfortunately, few existing systems support propagation of alerts during the atta...
Michael Treaster, William Conner, Indranil Gupta, ...
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Infection-Based Norm Emergence in Multi-Agent Complex Networks
We propose a computational model that facilitates agents in a MAS to collaboratively evolve their norms to reach the best norm conventions. Our approach borrows from the social con...
Norman Salazar, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, ...
ICCABS
2011
12 years 10 months ago
High-performance biocomputing for simulating the spread of contagion over large contact networks
Abstract—Many important biological problems can be modeled as contagion diffusion processes over interaction networks. This paper shows how the EpiSimdemics interaction-based sim...
Keith R. Bisset, Ashwin M. Aji, Madhav V. Marathe,...
AAAI
2012
11 years 9 months ago
Security Games for Controlling Contagion
Many strategic actions carry a ‘contagious’ component beyond the immediate locale of the effort itself. Viral marketing and peacekeeping operations have both been observed to ...
Jason Tsai, Thanh H. Nguyen, Milind Tambe