In recent years the research community has accumulated overwhelming evidence for the
emergence of complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns in a wide range of …

Online social networks play a major role not only in socio psychological front, but also in the
economic aspect. The way social network serves as a platform of information spread, has …

Social media generated from many individuals is playing a greater role in our daily lives and
provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable insight on information flow and social …

A challenging issue in viral marketing is to effectively identify a set of influential users. By
sending the advertising messages to this set, one can reach out the largest area of the …

With their blistering expansions in recent years, popular on-line social sites such as Twitter,
Facebook and Bebo, have become some of the major news sources as well as the most …

Influence maximization, defined as a problem of finding a set of seed nodes to trigger a
maximized spread of influence, is crucial to viral marketing on social networks. For practical …

It is a fundamental issue to find a small subset of influential individuals in a complex network
such that they can spread information to the largest number of nodes in the network. Though …

Due to the rapid extension of social networks in recent years, a new potential has emerged
for global spreading of messages and effective broadcasting of news. Identification of …

Identifying a set of influential nodes is an important topic in complex networks which plays a
crucial role in many applications, such as market advertising, rumor controlling, and …

Social media is widely used for sharing disaster-related information following natural
disasters. Drawing on negativity bias theory, integrated crisis map** model, and arousal …