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Influence maximization (IM) is the problem of finding a seed vertex set which is expected to incur the maximum influence spread on a graph. It has various applications in practice such as devising an effective and efficient approach to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Gokhan Gokturk , Kamer Kaya

In a social network, even about the same information the excitements between different pairs of users are different. If you want to spread a piece of new information and maximize the expected total amount of excitements, which seed users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Zhefeng Wang , Yu Yang , Jian Pei , Enhong Chen

Influence maximization (IM) is the problem of finding a seed vertex set that maximizes the expected number of vertices influenced under a given diffusion model. Due to the NP-Hardness of finding an optimal seed set, approximation algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Gokhan Gokturk , Kamer Kaya

Influence maximization is a widely used model for information dissemination in social networks. Recent work has employed such interventions across a wide range of social problems, spanning public health, substance abuse, and international…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Alan Tsang , Bryan Wilder , Eric Rice , Milind Tambe , Yair Zick

Influence maximization in social networks has typically been studied in the context of contagion models and irreversible processes. In this paper, we consider an alternate model that treats individual opinions as spins in an Ising system at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-21 Christopher Lynn , Daniel D. Lee

A widely studied process of influence diffusion in social networks posits that the dynamics of influence diffusion evolves as follows: Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, representing the network, initially \emph{only} the members of a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Adele A. Rescigno , Ugo Vaccaro

Influence maximization has found applications in a wide range of real-world problems, for instance, viral marketing of products in an online social network, and information propagation of valuable information such as job vacancy…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Junaid Ali , Mahmoudreza Babaei , Abhijnan Chakraborty , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Krishna P. Gummadi , Adish Singla

The increasing prominence of temporal networks in online social platforms and dynamic communication systems has made influence maximization a critical research area. Various diffusion models have been proposed to capture the spread of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Aaqib Zahoor , Iqra Altaf Gillani , Janibul Bashir

Community partition is an important problem in many areas such as biology network, social network. The objective of this problem is to analyse the relationships among data via the network topology. In this paper, we consider the community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Qiufen Ni , Jianxiong Guo , Chuanhe Huang , Weili Wu

We study the problem of robust influence maximization in dynamic diffusion networks. In line with recent works, we consider the scenario where the network can undergo insertion and removal of nodes and edges, in discrete time steps, and the…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Arkaprava Saha , Bogdan Cautis , Xiaokui Xiao , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Influence maximization is a prototypical problem enabling applications in various domains, and it has been extensively studied in the past decade. The classic influence maximization problem explores the strategies for deploying seed users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Guangmo Tong , Ruiqi Wang

Most studies on influence maximization focus on one-shot propagation, i.e. the influence is propagated from seed users only once following a probabilistic diffusion model and users' activation are determined via single cascade. In reality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Xiaohan Shan , Wei Chen , Qiang Li , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang

We propose a generalized framework for influence maximization in large-scale, time evolving networks. Many real-life influence graphs such as social networks, telephone networks, and IP traffic data exhibit dynamic characteristics, e.g.,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi , Arijit Khan

Influence Maximization (IM) is a pivotal concept in social network analysis, involving the identification of influential nodes within a network to maximize the number of influenced nodes, and has a wide variety of applications that range…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Matteo Bergamaschi , Sara Venturini , Francesco Tudisco , Francesco Rinaldi

Influence maximization is the problem of finding a set of influential users in a social network such that the expected spread of influence under a certain propagation model is maximized. Much of the previous work has neglected the important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wei Lu , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

In recent years, epidemic modeling in complex networks has found many applications, including modeling of information or gossip spread in online social networks, modeling of malware spread in communication networks, and the most recent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Aybike Şimşek

We study fairness in social influence maximization, whereby one seeks to select seeds that spread a given information throughout a network, ensuring balanced outreach among different communities (e.g. demographic groups). In the literature,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Shubham Chowdhary , Giulia De Pasquale , Nicolas Lanzetti , Ana-Andreea Stoica , Florian Dorfler

Influence maximization aims to select k most-influential vertices or seeds in a network, where influence is defined by a given diffusion process. Although computing optimal seed set is NP-Hard, efficient approximation algorithms exist.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Xinyu Chen , Marco Minutoli , Jiannan Tian , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Ananth Kalyanaraman , Dingwen Tao

Influence maximization problem involves selecting a subset of seed nodes within a social network to maximize information spread under a given diffusion model, so how to identify the important nodes is the problem to be considered in this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Qi Cao , Yurong Song , Min Li , Ruqi Li , Hongbo Qu , Guo-Ping Jiang , Jinye Xiong

We consider the optimization problem of seeding a spreading process on a temporal network so that the expected size of the resulting outbreak is maximized. We frame the problem for a spreading process following the rules of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-20 Sirag Erkol , Dario Mazzilli , Filippo Radicchi