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SIROCCO
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Word of Mouth: Rumor Dissemination in Social Networks
In this paper we examine the diffusion of competing rumors in social networks. Two players select a disjoint subset of nodes as initiators of the rumor propagation, seeking to maxi...
Jan Kostka, Yvonne Anne Oswald, Roger Wattenhofer
ICALP
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Rumor Spreading in Social Networks
Social networks are an interesting class of graphs likely to become of increasing importance in the future, not only theoretically, but also for its probable applications to ad hoc...
Flavio Chierichetti, Silvio Lattanzi, Alessandro P...
AINA
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Trusted Gossip: A Rumor Resistant Dissemination Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing
Epidemic protocols such as gossip have proven to have many desirable properties for information sharing. However, trust is one of the issues that is yet to be examined with respec...
Arindam Mitra, Muthucumaru Maheswaran
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
A Game Theoretical Approach to Modeling Information Dissemination in Social Networks
One major function of social networks (e.g., massive online social networks) is the dissemination of information such as scientific knowledge, news, and rumors. Information can be...
Dmitry Zinoviev, Vy Duong, Honggang Zhang
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Push-Poll Recommender System: Supporting Word of Mouth
Abstract. Recommender systems produce social networks as a side effect of predicting what users will like. However, the potential for these social networks to aid in recommending i...
Andrew Webster, Julita Vassileva