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We consider the problem of identifying the source of an epidemic, spreading through a network, from a complete observation of the infected nodes in a snapshot of the network. Previous work on the problem has often employed geometric,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-13 S. Jalil Kazemitabar , Arash A. Amini

We extend the concept of graph isomorphisms to multilayer networks with any number of "aspects" (i.e., types of layering). In developing this generalization, we identify multiple types of isomorphisms. For example, in multilayer networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-17 Mikko Kivelä , Mason A. Porter

Most studies that consider the problem of estimating the location of a point source in wireless sensor networks assume that the source location is estimated by a set of spatially distributed sensors, whose locations are fixed. Motivated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mohammad Fanaei , Matthew C. Valenti , Natalia A. Schmid

Source detection is crucial for capturing the dynamics of real-world infectious diseases and informing effective containment strategies. Most existing approaches to source detection focus on conventional pairwise networks, whereas recent…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-04 Qiao Ke , Naoki Masuda , Zhen Jin , Chuang Liu , Xiu-Xiu Zhan

Researchers, policy makers, and engineers need to make sense of data on spreading processes as diverse as viral infections, water contamination, and misinformation in social networks. Classical questions include predicting infection…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ben Bals

Source detection (SD) is the task of finding the origin of a spreading process in a network. Algorithms for SD help us combat diseases, misinformation, pollution, and more, and have been studied by physicians, physicists, sociologists, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ben Bals , Michelle Döring , Nicolas Klodt , George Skretas

We study the inference of the origin and the pattern of contamination in water distribution networks. We assume a simplified model for the dyanmics of the contamination spread inside a water distribution network, and assume that at some…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-07 Alfredo Braunstein , Alejandro Lage-Castellanos , Ernesto Ortega

The problem of estimating the number of sources and their angles of arrival from a single antenna array observation has been an active area of research in the signal processing community for the last few decades. When the number of sources…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-19 Oded Bialer , Noa Garnett , Tom Tirer

Determining whether nodes can be localized, called localizability detection, is essential for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This step is required for localizing nodes, achieving low-cost deployments, and identifying prerequisites in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-31 Hejun Wu , Ao Ding , Lvzhou Li

Locating the source that triggers a dynamical process is a fundamental but challenging problem in complex networks, ranging from epidemic spreading in society and on the Internet to cancer metastasis in the human body. An accurate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-15 Zhesi Shen , Shinan Cao , Wen-Xu Wang , Zengru Di , H. Eugene Stanley

Sampling random nodes is a fundamental algorithmic primitive in the analysis of massive networks, with many modern graph mining algorithms critically relying on it. We consider the task of generating a large collection of random nodes in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Talya Eden , Joel Oren , Dimitris Fotakis

We introduce GraphSL, a new library for studying the graph source localization problem. graph diffusion and graph source localization are inverse problems in nature: graph diffusion predicts information diffusions from information sources,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Junxiang Wang , Liang Zhao

Source localization is the process of estimating the location of signal sources based on the signals received at different antennas of an antenna array. It has diverse applications, ranging from radar systems and underwater acoustics to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Parisa Ramezani , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This survey presents the main results achieved for the influence maximization problem in social networks. This problem is well studied in the literature and, thanks to its recent applications, some of which currently deployed on the field,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Giuseppe De Nittis , Nicola Gatti

Locating source of diffusion in networks is crucial for controlling and preventing epidemic risks. It has been studied under various probabilistic models. In this paper, we study source location from a deterministic point of view by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Xujin Chen , Xiaodong Hu , Changjun Wang

An instance of the maximum mixed graph orientation problem consists of a mixed graph and a collection of source-target vertex pairs. The objective is to orient the undirected edges of the graph so as to maximize the number of pairs that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Iftah Gamzu , Moti Medina

Source localization is the inverse problem of graph information dissemination and has broad practical applications. However, the inherent intricacy and uncertainty in information dissemination pose significant challenges, and the ill-posed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Bosong Huang , Weihao Yu , Ruzhong Xie , Jing Xiao , Jin Huang

Change-point analysis has been successfully applied to the detect changes in multivariate data streams over time. In many applications, when data are observed over a graph/network, change does not occur simultaneously but instead spread…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-21 Hanqing Cai , Tengyao Wang

The source detection problem arises when an epidemic process unfolds over a contact network, and the objective is to identify its point of origin, i.e., the source node. Research on this problem began with the seminal work of Shah and Zaman…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Martin Sterchi , Nathan Brack , Lorenz Hilfiker

Autonomous robot networks are an effective tool for monitoring large-scale environmental fields. This paper proposes distributed control strategies for localizing the source of a noisy signal, which could represent a physical quantity of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Nikolay A. Atanasov , Jerome Le Ny , George J. Pappas