Distributed mechanisms that regulate the behavior of autonomous agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) are of high interest since we cannot employ centralized approaches relying...
Online social network has developed significantly in recent years as a medium of communicating, sharing and disseminating information and spreading influence. Most of current resea...
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...
Gossip protocols provide probabilistic reliability and scalability, but their inherent randomness may lead to high variation in number of messages that are received at different n...
Jay A. Patel, Indranil Gupta, Noshir S. Contractor
The problem of influence maximization deals with choosing the optimal set of nodes in a social network so as to maximize the resulting spread of a technology (opinion, productowne...