Collective Influence of Multiple Spreaders Evaluated by Tracing Real Information Flow in Large-Scale Social Networks

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Teng, Xian, Sen, Pei, Morone, Flaviano, Makse, Hernán A
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 07.11.2016
• Subjects: Heuristic methods; Information dissemination; Information flow; Maximization; Nodes; Optimization; Percolation; Social networks; Spreaders

Identifying the most influential spreaders that maximize information flow is a central question in network theory. Recently, a scalable method called "Collective Influence (CI)" has been put forward through collective influence maximization. In contrast to heuristic methods evaluating node...