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Spreading is a ubiquitous process in the social, biological and technological systems. Therefore, identifying influential spreaders, which is important to prevent epidemic spreading and to establish effective vaccination strategies, is full…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-17 Senbin Yu , Liang Gao , Yi-Fan Wang , Ge Gao , Congcong Zhou , Zi-You Gao

The spread of influence in networks is a topic of great importance in many application areas. For instance, one would like to maximise the coverage, limiting the budget for marketing campaign initialisation and use the potential of social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Radosław Michalski , Jarosław Jankowski , Piotr Bródka

In many complex networked systems, such as online social networks, activity originates at certain nodes and subsequently spreads on the network through influence. In this work, we consider the problem of modeling the spread of influence and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Arun Sathanur , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Yi Shi , Walin Sagduyu

Identifying influencers in a given social network has become an important research problem for various applications, including accelerating the spread of information in viral marketing and preventing the spread of fake news and rumors. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Sho Tsugawa , Kohei Watabe

Detecting spreading outbreaks in social networks with sensors is of great significance in applications. Inspired by the formation mechanism of human's physical sensations to external stimuli, we propose a new method to detect the influence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-08 Sen Pei , Shaoting Tang , Zhiming Zheng

As an important type of dynamics on complex networks, spreading is widely used to model many real processes such as the epidemic contagion and information propagation. One of the most significant research questions in spreading is to rank…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-18 Ye Sun , Long Ma , An Zeng , Wen-Xu Wang

With great theoretical and practical significance, identifying the node spreading influence of complex network is one of the most promising domains. So far, various topology-based centrality measures have been proposed to identify the node…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-27 Jian-Hong Lin , Jian-Guo Liu , Qiang Guo

Identifying a set of influential spreaders in complex networks plays a crucial role in effective information spreading. A simple strategy is to choose top-$r$ ranked nodes as spreaders according to influence ranking method such as PageRank,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Jian-Xiong Zhang , Duan-Bing Chen , Qiang Dong , Zhi-Dan Zhao

An efficient strategy for the identification of influential spreaders that could be used to control epidemics within populations would be of considerable importance. Generally, populations are characterized by its community structures and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-23 Shi-Long Luo , Kai Gong , Li Kang

Identifying the node spreading influence in networks is an important task to optimally use the network structure and ensure the more efficient spreading in information. In this paper, by taking into account the shortest distance between a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 Jian-Guo Liu , Zhuo-Ming Ren , Qiang Guo

How would admissions look like in a university program for influencers? In the realm of social network analysis, influence maximization and link prediction stand out as pivotal challenges. Influence maximization focuses on identifying a set…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Marina Lin , Laura P. Schaposnik , Raina Wu

Influence Maximization (IM) aims at finding the most influential users in a social network, i. e., users who maximize the spread of an opinion within a certain propagation model. Previous work investigated the correlation between influence…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Mehmet Simsek , Henning Meyerhenke

Identifying the most influential spreaders is one of outstanding problems in physics of complex systems. So far, many approaches have attempted to rank the influence of nodes but there is still the lack of accuracy to single out influential…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-29 Byungjoon Min

Understanding the heterogeneous role of individuals in large-scale information spreading is essential to manage online behavior as well as its potential offline consequences. To this end, most existing studies from diverse research domains…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Fang Zhou , Linyuan Lü , Jianguo Liu , Manuel Sebastian Mariani

Spreading processes are fundamental to complex networks. Identifying influential spreaders with dual local and global roles presents a crucial yet challenging task. To address this, our study proposes a novel method, the Basic Cycle Ratio…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Wenxin Zheng , Wenfeng Shi , Tianlong Fan , Linyuan Lv

Social networks, due to their popularity, have been studied extensively these years. A rich body of these studies is related to influence maximization, which aims to select a set of seed nodes for maximizing the expected number of active…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Zhefeng Wang , Enhong Chen , Qi Liu , Yu Yang , Yong Ge , Biao Chang

Identifying influential spreaders is crucial for understanding and controlling spreading processes on social networks. Via assigning degree-dependent weights onto links associated with the ground node, we proposed a variant to a recent…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-16 Qian Li , Tao Zhou , Linyuan Lv , Duanbing Chen

When dealing with the dissemination of epidemics, one important question that can be asked is the location where the contamination began. In this paper, we analyze three spreading schemes and propose and validate an effective methodology…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-27 Cesar Henrique Comin , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

The diffusion of information, norms, and practices across a social network can be initiated by compelling a small number of seed individuals to adopt first. Strategies proposed in previous work either assume full network information or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-09 Jiamin Ou , Vincent Buskens , Arnout Van De Rijt , Debabrata Panja

Temporal networks, whose links are activated or deactivated over time, are used to represent complex systems such as social interactions or collaborations occurring at specific times. Such networks facilitate the spread of information and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Tianrui Mao , Shilun Zhang , Alan Hanjalic , Huijuan Wang