People often seek information by asking other people even when they have access to vast reservoirs of information such as the Internet and libraries. This is because people are gr...
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...
The ever-increasing amount of information flowing through Social Media forces the members of these networks to compete for attention and influence by relying on other people to sp...
Daniel M. Romero, Wojciech Galuba, Sitaram Asur, B...
As one of the most popular micro-blogging services, Twitter attracts millions of users, producing millions of tweets daily. Shared information through this service spreads faster ...
Automated reasoning about human behavior is a central goal of artificial intelligence. In order to engage and intervene in a meaningful way, an intelligent system must be able to ...
Tanzeem Choudhury, Matthai Philipose, Danny Wyatt,...