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WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Limiting the spread of misinformation in social networks
In this work, we study the notion of competing campaigns in a social network. By modeling the spread of influence in the presence of competing campaigns, we provide necessary too...
Ceren Budak, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Truthy: mapping the spread of astroturf in microblog streams
Online social media are complementing and in some cases replacing person-to-person social interaction and redefining the diffusion of information. In particular, microblogs have ...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss, Bru...
AAAI
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Robust Cuts Over Time: Combatting the Spread of Invasive Species with Unreliable Biological Control
Widespread accounts of the harmful effects of invasive species have stimulated both practical and theoretical studies on how the spread of these destructive agents can be containe...
Gwen Spencer
CORR
2008
Springer
127views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Theory of Rumour Spreading in Complex Social Networks
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...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Social Learning Applications in Resource Constrained Networks
Efficient design of social networking applications must take account of two guiding principles: the adaptive processes by which humans learn and spread new information, and the co...
Ali Saidi, Mahesh V. Tripunitara, Mojdeh Mohtashem...