Social influence occurs when one's opinions, emotions, or behaviors are affected by others
in a social network. However, social influence takes many forms, and its underlying …

Online social networks have become an effective and important social platform for
communication, opinions exchange, and information sharing. However, they also make it …

Given a graph, like a social/computer network or the blogosphere, in which an infection (or
meme or virus) has been spreading for some time, how to select the k best nodes for …

How does online content propagate on social networks? Billions of users generate,
consume, and spread tons of information every day. This unprecedented scale of dynamics …

Most existing community-related studies focus on detection, which aim to find the community
membership for each user from user friendship links. However, membership alone, without a …

When a “following” link is formed in a social network, will the link trigger the formation of
other neighboring links? We study the diffusion phenomenon of the formation of “following” …

Social networks have changed the way how people communicate with each other
dramatically. The study on information dissemination in social networks has attracted …

Online social networks (OSNs) provide a platform for users to publish messages, by which
users express their emotions on events or products. The phenomenon that emotions are …

Abstract Information diffusion in networks is an important research topic in various fields.
Existing studies either focus on modeling the process of information diffusion, eg …

A real-time application is specified as a set of nonpreemptive tasks with precedence and
deadline constraints. An offline algorithm for multiprocessor scheduling of nonpreemptive …