Word-of-mouth communication has been shown to play a key role in a variety of environments such as viral marketing and virus spreading. A family of algorithms, generally known as ...
Abstract. Reasoning about social networks (labeled, directed, weighted graphs) is becoming increasingly important and there are now models of how certain phenomena (e.g. adoption o...
Paulo Shakarian, V. S. Subrahmanian, Maria Luisa S...
Abstract—Having a risky sexual behavior increases the likelihood of infection by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AI...
Azadeh Alimadad, Vahid Dabbaghian, Suraj K. Singhk...
We prove and extend a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (KKT) on the spread of influence in social networks. A social network can be represented by a directed graph where...
In a recent paper entitled ‘Influences of Resource Limitations and Transmission Costs on Epidemic Simulations and Critical Thresholds in Scale-Free Networks’ by Huang et al., ...