Word-of-mouth communication has been shown to play a key role in a variety of environments such as viral marketing and virus spreading. A family of algorithms, generally known as ...
In the paper, we present an approach to mining a directed social network from a message board on the Internet where vertices denote individuals and directed links denote the flow ...
Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, Xavier Llor&...
In recent years, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have increasingly gained popularity. With the existence of hundreds of such sites, it is not uncommon to have users switching betwe...
We examine the marriage of recent probabilistic generative models for social networks with classical frameworks from mathematical economics. We are particularly interested in how ...
Sham M. Kakade, Michael J. Kearns, Luis E. Ortiz, ...
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...