A Novel Nested Q-Learning Method to Tackle Time-Constrained Competitive Influence Maximization

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 7; pp. 6337 - 6352
• Main Authors: Ali, Khurshed, Wang, Chih-Yu, Chen, Yi-Shin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Budgets; Companies; Competition; competitive influence maximization; Concerts; Constraints; Greedy algorithms; influence maximization; Integrated circuit modeling; Machine learning; Maximization; Optimization; reinforcement learning; Scalability; Social network analysis; Social network services; Time factors

Time plays a critical role in competitive influence maximization. Companies aim to promote their products before certain events, such as Christmas Eve or music concerts, to gain more benefit under competitions from other companies. Besides, these companies have a limited budget to spend on these pro...