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...
Abstract—Having a risky sexual behavior increases the likelihood of infection by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AI...
Azadeh Alimadad, Vahid Dabbaghian, Suraj K. Singhk...
This paper proposes a method for measuring semantic similarity between words as a new tool for text analysis. The similarity is measured on a semantic network constructed systemat...
The ability to limit unsolicited traffic in the Internet is important to defy DDoS attacks and to contain the spread of worms and viruses. The concept of capabilities, which requir...
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...