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This paper examines the problem of adaptive influence maximization in social networks. As adaptive decision making is a time-critical task, a realistic feedback model has been considered, called myopic. In this direction, we propose the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Guillaume Salha , Nikolaos Tziortziotis , Michalis Vazirgiannis

In this paper, we investigate the discount allocation problem in social networks. It has been reported that 40\% of consumers will share an email offer with their friend and 28\% of consumers will share deals via social media platforms.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

In this paper, we address the important issue of uncertainty in the edge influence probability estimates for the well studied influence maximization problem --- the task of finding $k$ seed nodes in a social network to maximize the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Wei Chen , Tian Lin , Zihan Tan , Mingfei Zhao , Xuren Zhou

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

When trying to maximize the adoption of a behavior in a population connected by a social network, it is common to strategize about where in the network to seed the behavior, often with an element of randomness. Selecting seeds uniformly at…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-22 Alex Chin , Dean Eckles , Johan Ugander

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

When spreading information over social networks, seeding algorithms selecting users to start the dissemination play a crucial role. The majority of existing seeding algorithms focus solely on maximizing the total number of reached nodes,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Maciej Styczen , Bing-Jyue Chen , Ya-Wen Teng , Yvonne-Anne Pignolet , Lydia Chen , De-Nian Yang

Online social networks have become an important platform for people to communicate, share knowledge and disseminate information. Given the widespread usage of social media, individuals' ideas, preferences and behavior are often influenced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Hui Li , Susu Yang , Mengting Xu , Sourav S Bhowmick , Jiangtao Cui

We consider the *adaptive influence maximization problem*: given a network and a budget $k$, iteratively select $k$ seeds in the network to maximize the expected number of adopters. In the *full-adoption feedback model*, after selecting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Wei Chen , Binghui Peng , Grant Schoenebeck , Biaoshuai Tao

For maximizing influence spread in a social network, given a certain budget on the number of seed nodes, we investigate the effects of selecting and activating the seed nodes in multiple phases. In particular, we formulate an appropriate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Swapnil Dhamal , Prabuchandran K. J. , Y. Narahari

In the last few years, many closed social networks such as WhatsAPP and WeChat have emerged to cater for people's growing demand of privacy and independence. In a closed social network, the posted content is not available to all users or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Shixun Huang , Wenqing Lin , Zhifeng Bao , Jiachen Sun

As a widely observable social effect, influence diffusion refers to a process where innovations, trends, awareness, etc. spread across the network via the social impact among individuals. Motivated by such social effect, the concept of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Liang Ma

Influence maximization is the problem of selecting top $k$ seed nodes in a social network to maximize their influence coverage under certain influence diffusion models. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm IRIE that integrates a new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Kyomin Jung , Wooram Heo , Wei Chen

A key step in influence maximization in online social networks is the identification of a small number of users, known as influencers, who are able to spread influence quickly and widely to other users. The evolving nature of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Weihua Li , Yuxuan Hu , Shiqing Wu , Quan Bai , Edmund Lai

Influence maximization is the task of finding a set of seed nodes in a social network such that the influence spread of these seed nodes based on certain influence diffusion model is maximized. Topic-aware influence diffusion models have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Wei Chen , Tian Lin , Cheng Yang

This paper studies the multi-cascade influence maximization problem, which explores strategies for launching one information cascade in a social network with multiple existing cascades. With natural extensions to the classic models, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Guangmo Tong , Ruiqi Wang , Zheng Dong

The problem of Profit Maximization asks to choose a limited number of influential users from a given social network such that the initial activation of these users maximizes the profit earned at the end of the diffusion process. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Poonam Sharma , Suman Banerjee

The problem of selecting an optimal seed set to maximise influence in networks has been a subject of intense research in recent years. However, despite numerous works addressing this area, it remains a topic that requires further…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Michał Czuba , Piotr Bródka

Influence maximization aims to find a subset of seeds that maximize the influence spread under a given budget. In this paper, we mainly address the data-driven version of this problem, where the diffusion model is not given but needs to be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yuxin Zuo , Haojia Sun , Yongyi Hu , Jianxiong Guo , Xiaofeng Gao

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