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We consider stochastic influence maximization problems arising in social networks. In contrast to existing studies that involve greedy approximation algorithms with a 63% performance guarantee, our work focuses on solving the problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Hao-Hsiang Wu , Simge Kucukyavuz

Influence maximization (IM) has garnered a lot of attention in the literature owing to applications such as viral marketing and infection containment. It aims to select a small number of seed users to adopt an item such that adoption…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Prithu Banerjee , Wei Chen , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

In a social network, influence maximization is the problem of identifying a set of users that own the maximum {\it influence ability} across the network. In this paper, a novel credit distribution (CD) based model, termed as the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Qilian Yu , Hang Li , Yun Liao , Shuguang Cui

The billboard advertisement has emerged as an effective out-of-home advertisement technique where the objective is to choose a limited number of slots to play some advertisement content (e.g., animation, video, etc.) with the hope that the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Dildar Ali , Suman Banerjee , Yamuna Prasad

Given a social network with nonuniform selection cost of the users, the problem of \textit{Budgeted Influence Maximization} (BIM in short) asks for selecting a subset of the nodes within an allocated budget for initial activation, such that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Suman Banerjee , Mamata Jenamani , Dilip Kumar Pratihar

Influence maximization has been studied for social network analysis, such as viral marketing (advertising), rumor prevention, and opinion leader identification. However, most studies neglect the interplay between influence spread, cost…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Mingyang Feng , Qi Zhao , Shan He , Yuhui Shi

Social networks have been popular platforms for information propagation. An important use case is viral marketing: given a promotion budget, an advertiser can choose some influential users as the seed set and provide them free or discounted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yixin Bao , Xiaoke Wang , Zhi Wang , Chuan Wu , Francis C. M. Lau

Recently, online social networks have become major battlegrounds for political campaigns, viral marketing, and the dissemination of news. As a consequence, ''bad actors'' are increasingly exploiting these platforms, becoming a key challenge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh

Recently the influence maximization problem has received much attention for its applications on viral marketing and product promotions. However, such influence maximization problems have not taken into account the monetary effect on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Ya-Wen Teng , Chih-Hua Tai , Philip S. Yu , Ming-Syan Chen

Constrained submodular maximization problems encompass a wide variety of applications, including personalized recommendation, team formation, and revenue maximization via viral marketing. The massive instances occurring in modern day…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Georgios Amanatidis , Federico Fusco , Philip Lazos , Stefano Leonardi , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

Billboard Advertisement has emerged as an effective out-of-home advertisement technique where the goal is to select a limited number of slots and play advertisement content over there with the hope that this will be observed by many people,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Dildar Ali , Rajibul Islam , Suman Banerjee

Given a budget and arbitrary cost for selecting each node, the budgeted influence maximization (BIM) problem concerns selecting a set of seed nodes to disseminate some information that maximizes the total number of nodes influenced (termed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Huy Nguyen , Rong Zheng

Influence maximization (IM) seeks to identify a seed set that maximizes influence within a network, with applications in areas such as viral marketing, disease control, and political campaigns. The budgeted influence maximization (BIM)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Su-Su Zhang , Chuang Liu , Huijuan Wang , Yang Chen , Xiu-Xiu Zhan

Constrained $k$-submodular maximization is a general framework that captures many discrete optimization problems such as ad allocation, influence maximization, personalized recommendation, and many others. In many of these applications,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Fabian Spaeh , Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

Motivated by online social networks that are linked together through overlapping users, we study the influence maximization problem on a multiplex, with each layer endowed with its own model of influence diffusion. This problem is a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Alan Kuhnle , Md Abdul Alim , Xiang Li , Huiling Zhang , My T. Thai

Influence maximization problem attempts to find a small subset of nodes that makes the expected influence spread maximized, which has been researched intensively before. They all assumed that each user in the seed set we select is activated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jianxiong Guo , Weili Wu

Online social network has been one of the most important platforms for viral marketing. Most of existing researches about diffusion of adoptions of new products on networks are about one diffusion. That is, only one piece of information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Tiantian Chen , Jianxiong Guo , Weili Wu

Influence maximization (IM) is the problem of identifying a limited number of initial influential users within a social network to maximize the number of influenced users. However, previous research has mostly focused on individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zirui Yuan , Minglai Shao , Zhiqian Chen

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

Stimulated by practical applications arising from viral marketing. This paper investigates a novel Budgeted $k$-Submodular Maximization problem defined as follows: Given a finite set $V$, a budget $B$ and a $k$-submodular function $f:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Canh V. Pham , Quang C. Vu , Dung K. T. Ha , Tai T. Nguyen