This paper deals with randomized polling of a social network. In the case of forecasting the
outcome of an election between two candidates A and B, classical intent polling asks …

This article considers the problem of estimating a power-law degree distribution of an
undirected network using sampled data. Although power-law degree distributions are …

Friendship paradox states that individuals are likely to have fewer friends than their friends
do, on average. Despite of its wide existence and appealing applications in real social …

Abstract Nowadays, Online Social Network (OSN) is very trendy in business, politics, and
health care. This one can have the wider range of accessibility of information diffusion. The …

This paper studies controlling segregation in social networks via exogenous incentives. We
construct an edge formation game on a directed graph. A user (node) chooses the …

We consider SIS diffusion processes over networks, where a classical assumption is that
individuals' decisions to adopt a contagion are based on their immediate neighbors …

The friendship paradox is a type of observation bias in undirected social networks:“on
average, the number of friends of a random friend is always greater than or equal to the …

Estimating exposure to information on a social network is a problem with important
consequences for our society. The exposure estimation problem involves finding the fraction …

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This paper develops efficient polling algorithms that take into account the influence structure
of the social network and can track a time-varying fraction of the population having a …