Different buyers exhibit different purchasing behaviors. Some rush to purchase new products while others tend to be more cautious, waiting for reviews from people they trust. In...
We develop a game-theoretic framework for the study of competition between firms who have budgets to “seed” the initial adoption of their products by consumers located in a s...
We propose that the information access behavior of a group of people can be modeled as an information flow issue, in which people intentionally or unintentionally influence and in...
Xiaodan Song, Belle L. Tseng, Ching-Yung Lin, Ming...
Diffusion processes taking place in social networks are used to model a number of phenomena, such as the spread of human or computer viruses, and the adoption of products in `vira...
The Target Set Selection problem proposed by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos, gives a nice clean combinatorial formulation for many problems arising in economy, sociology, and medicin...
Oren Ben-Zwi, Danny Hermelin, Daniel Lokshtanov, I...