A general method of active friending in different diffusion models in social networks

• Published in: Social network analysis and mining Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 41
• Main Authors: Gu, Shuyang, Gao, Chuangen, Yang, Ruiqi, Wu, Weili, Wang, Hua, Xu, Dachuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.12.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks; Cardinality; Combinatorial analysis; Computer Science; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Diffusion models; Economics; Game Theory; Graphs; Humanities; Influence; Knapsack problem; Law; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Optimization; Original Article; Propagation; Social and Behav. Sciences; Social networks; Statistics for Social Sciences; Submodular cost submodular knapsack maximization; Friending; Social networks

Active friending is a problem in social networks that is to assist a user to build a relationship to a target user by sending invitations to a set of intermediate users; the goal is to maximize the acceptance probability at the target node taking advantage of the social influence through the network...