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...
In third generation (3G) wireless data networks, repeated requests for popular data items can exacerbate the already scarce wireless spectrum. In this paper we propose an architec...
Michel X. Goemans, Erran L. Li, Vahab S. Mirrokni,...
Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, soc...
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 ...
A social network is defined as a social structure of individuals, who are related (directly or indirectly to each other) based on a common relation of interest, e.g. friendship, t...