Research on social networks has exploded over the last decade. To a large extent, this has
been fueled by the spectacular growth of social media and online social networking sites …

Our study concerns an important current problem, that of diffusion of information in social
networks. This problem has received significant attention from the Internet research …

In this paper, we study the spread of influence through a social network in a model initiated
by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos Maximizing the spread of influence through a social …

In the present trend of having an explosive use of smartphones and IoT-based devices,
there is an exponential growth in mobile data. It has already caused an overburden of …

In recent years, study of influence propagation in social networks has gained tremendous
attention. In this context, we can identify three orthogonal dimensions—the number of seed …

The adoption of everyday decisions in public affairs, fashion, movie-going, and consumer
behavior is now thoroughly believed to migrate in a population through an influential …

Viral marketing has attracted considerable concerns in recent years due to its novel idea of
leveraging the social network to propagate the awareness of products. Specifically, viral …

We study the problem of maintaining large replicated collections of files or documents in a
distributed environment with limited bandwidth. This problem arises in a number of important …

With the tremendous popularity of social networking sites in this era of Web 2.0, increasingly
more users are contributing their comments and opinions about products, people …

Finding influential members in social networks received a lot of interest in recent literature.
Several algorithms have been proposed that provide techniques for extracting a set of the …