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Online social networks are used to diffuse opinions and ideas among users, enabling a faster communication and a wider audience. The way in which opinions are conditioned by social interactions is usually called social influence. Social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Federico Corò , Emilio Cruciani , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Stefano Ponziani

With the rise in use of social media to promote branded products, the demand for effective influencer marketing has increased. Brands are looking for improved ways to identify valuable influencers among a vast catalogue; this is even more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Adam Elwood , Alberto Gasparin , Alessandro Rozza

Viral campaigns are crucial methods for word-of-mouth marketing in social communities. The goal of these campaigns is to encourage people for activity. The problem of incentivised and non-incentivised campaigns is studied in the paper.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Radosław Michalski , Jarosław Jankowski , Przemysław Kazienko

Influential users play an important role in online social networks since users tend to have an impact on one other. Therefore, the proposed work analyzes users and their behavior in order to identify influential users and predict user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Fredrik Erlandsson , Piotr Bródka , Anton Borg , Henric Johnson

In the new digital age, information is available in large quantities. Since information consumes primarily the attention of its recipients, the scarcity of attention is becoming the main limiting factor. In this study, we investigate the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Uzay Cetin , Haluk O. Bingol

The partition of society into groups, polarization, and social networks are part of most conversations today. How do they influence price competition? We discuss Bertrand duopoly equilibria with demand subject to network effects. Contrary…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-10-13 Renato Soeiro , Alberto Pinto

Motivated by applications such as viral marketing, the problem of influence maximization (IM) has been extensively studied in the literature. The goal is to select a small number of users to adopt an item such that it results in a large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Prithu Banerjee , Wei Chen , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

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

Social learning is a fundamental mechanism shaping decision-making across numerous social networks, including social trading platforms. In those platforms, investors combine traditional investing with copying the behavior of others.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-04 Bijin Joseph , Christoph Riedl , Alex Pentland , Esteban Moro

Individuals are often influenced by the behavior of others, for instance because they wish to obtain the benefits of coordinated actions or infer otherwise inaccessible information. In such situations this social influence decreases the ex…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-14 Richard Colbaugh , Kristin Glass , Paul Ormerod

It is commonly believed that patterns of social ties affect individuals' economic status. Here, we translate this concept into an operational definition at the network level, which allows us to infer the economic wellbeing of individuals…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-24 Shaojun Luo , Flaviano Morone , Carlos Sarraute , Matías Travizano , Hernán A. Makse

Motivated by applications to word-of-mouth advertising, we consider a game-theoretic scenario in which competing advertisers want to target initial adopters in a social network. Each advertiser wishes to maximize the resulting cascade of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Allan Borodin , Mark Braverman , Brendan Lucier , Joel Oren

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to the proliferation of artificial agents in social contexts, ranging from education to online social media and financial markets, among many others. The increasing rate at which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Eric Hitz , Mingmin Feng , Radu Tanase , René Algesheimer , Manuel S. Mariani

We investigate the collective behavior of a system of social agents subject to the competition between two mass media influences considered as external fields. We study under what conditions either of two mass media with different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-09 O. Alvarez-Llamoza , M. G. Cosenza , J. C. Gonzalez-Avella , M. A. Suarez , K. Tucci , P. Valverde

Information diffusion and influence maximization are important and extensively studied problems in social networks. Various models and algorithms have been proposed in the literature in the context of the influence maximization problem. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Mayur Mohite , Y. Narahari

As influencers play considerable roles in social media marketing, companies increase the budget for influencer marketing. Hiring effective influencers is crucial in social influencer marketing, but it is challenging to find the right…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Seungbae Kim , Jyun-Yu Jiang , Jinyoung Han , Wei Wang

We review and conceptualize recent advances in causal inference under network interference, drawing on a complex and diverse body of work that ranges from causal inference, statistical network analysis, economics, the health sciences, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-12 Subhankar Bhadra , Michael Schweinberger

A network effect is introduced taking into account competition, cooperation and mixed-type interaction amongst agents along a generalized Verhulst-Lotka-Volterra model. It is also argued that the presence of a market capacity enforces an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-29 A. Sonubi , A. Arcagni , S. Stefani , M. Ausloos

With the growing importance of corporate viral marketing campaigns on online social networks, the interest in studies of influence propagation through networks is higher than ever. In a viral marketing campaign, a firm initially targets a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Kumar Gaurav , Bartlomiej Blaszczyszyn , Holger Paul Keeler

We model competition on a credence goods market governed by an imperfect label, signaling high quality, as a rank-order tournament between firms. In this market interaction, asymmetric firms jointly and competitively control the aggregate…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-28 Daniel Rehsmann , Béatrice Roussillon , Paul Schweinzer