The growing popularity of social networks is providing a promising opportunity for different
practical applications. The influence analysis is an essential technique supporting the …

Social networks now connect billions of people around the world, where individuals
occupying different positions often represent different social roles and show different …

Today, people frequently communicate through interactions and exchange knowledge over
the social web in various formats. Social connections have been substantially improved by …

In order to find the nodes with better propagation ability, a large body of studies on the
influence maximization problem has been conducted. Several influence spreading models …

The study of influence maximization (IM) has attracted many scholars in recent years due to
its import practical values. Given a social network, it aims at finding a subset of k individuals …

Modern military operations in high-tech information warfare settings are dynamic processes
involving various types of combat systems connected via multiple channels, which can be …

Friend and point-of-interest (POI) recommendation are two primary individual services in
location-based social networks (LBSNs). Major social platforms such as Foursquare and …

Influence maximization deals with the problem of identifying k-size subset of nodes in a
social network that can maximize the influence spread in the network. In this paper, the …

Considering the ever-increasing size and complexity of social networks, developing
methods to extract meaningful knowledge and information from users' vast amounts of data …

The problem of influence maximization (IM) has been extensively studied in recent years
and has many practical applications such as social advertising and viral marketing. Given …