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In online advertising (Ad), advertisers are always eager to know how to globally optimize their budget allocation strategies across different channels for more conversions such as orders, payments, etc. Ignoring competition among different…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Guangyuan Shen , Shenjie Sun , Dehong Gao , Shaolei Li , Libin Yang , Yongping Shi , Wei Ning

Online influence maximization has attracted much attention as a way to maximize influence spread through a social network while learning the values of unknown network parameters. Most previous works focus on single-item diffusion. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jinhang Zuo , Xutong Liu , Carlee Joe-Wong , John C. S. Lui , Wei Chen

In cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-impression (CPM) advertising campaigns, advertisers always run the risk of spending the budget without getting enough conversions. Moreover, the bidding on advertising inventory has few connections with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Deguang Kong , Konstantin Shmakov , Jian Yang

We study online influence maximization (OIM) under a new model of decreasing cascade (DC). This model is a generalization of the independent cascade (IC) model by considering the common phenomenon of market saturation. In DC, the chance of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Fang Kong , Jize Xie , Baoxiang Wang , Tao Yao , Shuai Li

Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users' search queries via an auction. While there has been a lot of attention on the auction process and its game-theoretic aspects, our focus is on the advertisers. In particular,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jon Feldman , S. Muthukrishnan , Martin Pal , Cliff Stein

In this paper, we investigate the online allocation problem of maximizing the overall revenue subject to both lower and upper bound constraints. Compared to the extensively studied online problems with only resource upper bounds, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Qixin Zhang , Wenbing Ye , Zaiyi Chen , Haoyuan Hu , Enhong Chen , Yang Yu

Incentivized social advertising, an emerging marketing model, provides monetization opportunities not only to the owners of the social networking platforms but also to their influential users by offering a "cut" on the advertising revenue.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Cigdem Aslay , Francesco Bonchi , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Wei Lu

Internet advertising is a sophisticated game in which the many advertisers "play" to optimize their return on investment. There are many "targets" for the advertisements, and each "target" has a collection of games with a potentially…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Bhaskar DasGupta , S. Muthukrishnan

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

We want to find the optimal strategy for displaying advertisements e.g. banners, videos, in given locations at given times under some realistic dynamic constraints. Our primary goal is to maximize the expected revenue in a given period of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-11-25 Fabrizio Caruso , Giovanni Giuffrida

Influence campaigns in online social networks are often run by organizations, political parties, and nation states to influence large audiences. These campaigns are employed through the use of agents in the network that share persuasive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yen-Shao Chen , Tauhid Zaman

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

We consider the problem of Influence Maximization (IM), the task of selecting $k$ seed nodes in a social network such that the expected number of nodes influenced is maximized. We propose a community-aware divide-and-conquer framework that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Abhishek K. Umrawal , Christopher J. Quinn , Vaneet Aggarwal

In this survey, we offer an extensive overview of the Online Influence Maximization (IM) problem by covering both theoretical aspects and practical applications. For the integrity of the article and because the online algorithm takes an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jianxiong Guo

In networked environments, users frequently share recommendations about content, products, services, and courses of action with others. The extent to which such recommendations are successful and adopted is highly contextual, dependent on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ahmed Sayeed Faruk , Mohammad Shahverdikondori , Elena Zheleva

Co-branding has become a vital strategy for businesses aiming to expand market reach within recommendation systems. However, identifying effective cross-industry partnerships remains challenging due to resource imbalances, uncertain brand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Xiangxiang Dai , Xiaowei Sun , Jinhang Zuo , Xutong Liu , John C. S. Lui

We adopt a parametric approach to analyze the worst-case degradation in social welfare when the allocation of indivisible goods is constrained to be fair. Specifically, we are concerned with cardinality-constrained allocations, which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Alexander Lam , Bo Li , Ankang Sun

Efficient allocation of impressions to advertisers in display advertising has a significant impact on advertisers' utility and the browsing experience of users. The problem becomes particularly challenging in the presence of advertisers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Davood Shamsi , Marius Holtan , Robert Luenberger , Yinyu Ye

We consider the revenue maximization problem in social advertising, where a social network platform owner needs to select seed users for a group of advertisers, each with a payment budget, such that the total expected revenue that the owner…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Kai Han , Benwei Wu , Jing Tang , Shuang Cui , Cigdem Aslay , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

We model information dissemination as a susceptible-infected epidemic process and formulate a problem to jointly optimize seeds for the epidemic and time varying resource allocation over the period of a fixed duration campaign running on a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Kundan Kandhway , Joy Kuri