[PDF] Optimal Social Influence eBook

Author : Wen Xu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030377748

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This self-contained book describes social influence from a computational point of view, with a focus on recent and practical applications, models, algorithms and open topics for future research. Researchers, scholars, postgraduates and developers interested in research on social networking and the social influence related issues will find this book useful and motivating. The latest research on social computing is presented along with and illustrations on how to understand and manipulate social influence for knowledge discovery by applying various data mining techniques in real world scenarios. Experimental reports, survey papers, models and algorithms with specific optimization problems are depicted. The main topics covered in this book are: chrematistics of social networks, modeling of social influence propagation, popular research problems in social influence analysis such as influence maximization, rumor blocking, rumor source detection, and multiple social influence competing.

Author : Wen Xu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 303037775X

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This self-contained book describes social influence from a computational point of view, with a focus on recent and practical applications, models, algorithms and open topics for future research. Researchers, scholars, postgraduates and developers interested in research on social networking and the social influence related issues will find this book useful and motivating. The latest research on social computing is presented along with and illustrations on how to understand and manipulate social influence for knowledge discovery by applying various data mining techniques in real world scenarios. Experimental reports, survey papers, models and algorithms with specific optimization problems are depicted. The main topics covered in this book are: chrematistics of social networks, modeling of social influence propagation, popular research problems in social influence analysis such as influence maximization, rumor blocking, rumor source detection, and multiple social influence competing.

Author : Charu C. Aggarwal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1441984623

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Social network analysis applications have experienced tremendous advances within the last few years due in part to increasing trends towards users interacting with each other on the internet. Social networks are organized as graphs, and the data on social networks takes on the form of massive streams, which are mined for a variety of purposes. Social Network Data Analytics covers an important niche in the social network analytics field. This edited volume, contributed by prominent researchers in this field, presents a wide selection of topics on social network data mining such as Structural Properties of Social Networks, Algorithms for Structural Discovery of Social Networks and Content Analysis in Social Networks. This book is also unique in focussing on the data analytical aspects of social networks in the internet scenario, rather than the traditional sociology-driven emphasis prevalent in the existing books, which do not focus on the unique data-intensive characteristics of online social networks. Emphasis is placed on simplifying the content so that students and practitioners benefit from this book. This book targets advanced level students and researchers concentrating on computer science as a secondary text or reference book. Data mining, database, information security, electronic commerce and machine learning professionals will find this book a valuable asset, as well as primary associations such as ACM, IEEE and Management Science.

Author : Amin Saberi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642175724

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2010, held in Stanford, USA, in December 2010. The 52 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. The papers are organized in 33 regular papers and 19 short papers.

Author : Panos M. Pardalos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3319991426

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Computational and theoretical open problems in optimization, computational geometry, data science, logistics, statistics, supply chain modeling, and data analysis are examined in this book. Each contribution provides the fundamentals needed to fully comprehend the impact of individual problems. Current theoretical, algorithmic, and practical methods used to circumvent each problem are provided to stimulate a new effort towards innovative and efficient solutions. Aimed towards graduate students and researchers in mathematics, optimization, operations research, quantitative logistics, data analysis, and statistics, this book provides a broad comprehensive approach to understanding the significance of specific challenging or open problems within each discipline. The contributions contained in this book are based on lectures focused on “Challenges and Open Problems in Optimization and Data Science” presented at the Deucalion Summer Institute for Advanced Studies in Optimization, Mathematics, and Data Science in August 2016.

Author : Shuyang Gu
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Influence (Psychology)
ISBN :

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Online social networks have been developing and prosperous during the last two decades, my dissertation focus on the study of social influence. Several practical problems about social influence are formulated as optimization problems. First, users of online social networks such as Twitter, Instagram have a nature of expanding social relationships. Thus, one important social network service is to provide potential friends to a user that he or she might be interested in, which is called friend recommendation. Different from friend recommendation, which is a passive way for an user to connect with a potential friend, in my work, I tackle a different problem named active friending as an optimization problem about how to friend a person in social networks taking advantage of social influence to increase the acceptance probability by maximizing mutual friends influence. Second, the influence maximization problem has been studied extensively with the development of online social networks. Most of the existing works focus on the maximization of influence spread under the assumption that the number of influenced users determines the success of product promotion. However, the profit of some products such as online game depends on the interactions among users besides the number of users. We take both the number of active users and the user-to-user interactions into account and propose the interaction-aware influence maximization problem. Furthermore, due to the uncertainty in edge probability estimates in social networks, we propose the robust profit maximization problem to have the best solution in the worst case of probability settings.

Author : James T. Tedeschi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351473980

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Social psychologists have always been concerned with two-person interactions and the factors enabling one person to gain dominance. Although social psychology has devised a revolutionary set of techniques to investigate the phenomenon of power, hypotheses are too often ambiguously stated, research programs end in cul-de-sacs, and experiments take on the character of one-shot studies. In an attempt to stimulate new directions in research and to provide cumulative emphasis on the development of scientific theory in the area of power relations, Tedeschi has assembled original and path breaking essays from a dozen outstanding scholars and researchers in the behavioral sciences. More tightly integrated than leading books in the field of power relations, The Social Influence Processes focuses on two-person interactions. A full explanation of the terms "power" and "influence" is followed by an analysis of the major variables in connections between two persons that must be taken into account in a scientific theory of social influence. The subsequent chapters respond to the categories established, attempting a comprehensive construction of social reality and offering suggestions and techniques for measuring and ordering its complexity. Particular areas of research and theory are isolated for consideration in depth--such topics as personality as a power construct (Power and Personality by Henry L. Minton), influence in exchange theory (The Tactical Use of Social Power by Andrew Michener and Robert W. Suchner), and leadership through charisma (Interpersonal Attraction and Social Influence by Elaine Walster and Darcy Abrahams). In the final chapter, Tedeschi, Thomas Bonoma, and Barry R. Schlenker attempt to provide a general theory of social influence processes as they affect the target individual by reviewing the research literature in their own theoretical terms. This remarkable volume will be of interest to students as well

Author : Wen Xu
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Data mining
ISBN :

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Social networks, which consist of individuals and relationships between them, are now popular communication platforms for the public. Especially, online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, have emerged as an important medium for the widespread distribution of news, opinions or rumors in various social events. In this dissertation, we study two types of problems related to influence diffusion in social networks. First, to maximize the product adoption in social networks via the word-of-mouth effect, we study the problem of influence maximization, in which a small set of the most influential users are identified so that their aggregated influence in the network is maximized. We recast the problem to a weighted maximum cut based framework, which analyzes the influence flow among users in the network. Since the problem is NP-hard, we solve it by a semi-definite program based algorithm, which provides about 0.8 approximation of optimal solution with theoretical guarantees. Second, we study the inverse problem of influence diffusion, locating sources of information diffusion, which has important applications such as locating sources of epidemics or rumors in networks. Suppose the spread of rumor follows the probabilistic model, for example, Independent Cascade (IC), without any text or content information, we develop a reachability based score for ranking the importance of nodes as the rumor source. To extend our work, we consider detecting multiple rumors from a deterministic point on general graphs. The problem of Multiple Rumor Source Detection (MRSD) is formally defined as finding a Set Resolving Set (SRS) with the smallest cardinality in the network. Using an analysis framework of submodular functions, we propose a highly efficient greedy algorithm for the MRSD problem, which is polynomial time under some reasonable constraints, that is, there is a constant upper bound for the number of rumor sources.

Author : Dariusz Dolinski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317599632

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Every day we are asked to fulfil others’ requests, and we make regular requests of others too, seeking compliance with our desires, commands and suggestions. This accessible text provides a uniquely in-depth overview of the different social influence techniques people use in order to improve the chances of their requests being fulfilled. It both describes each of the techniques in question and explores the research behind them, considering questions such as: How do we know that they work? Under what conditions are they more or less likely to be effective? How might individuals successfully resist attempts by others to influence them? The book groups social influence techniques according to a common characteristic: for instance, early chapters describe "sequential" techniques, and techniques involving egotistic mechanisms, such as using the name of one’s interlocutor. Later chapters present techniques based on gestures and facial movements, and others based on the use of specific words, re-examining on the way whether "please" really is a magic word. In every case, author Dariusz Dolinski discusses the existing experimental studies exploring their effectiveness, and how that effectiveness is enhanced or reduced under certain conditions. The book draws on historical material as well as the most up-to-date research, and unpicks the methodological and theoretical controversies involved. The ideal introduction for psychology graduates and undergraduates studying social influence and persuasion, Techniques of Social Influence will also appeal to scholars and students in neighbouring disciplines, as well as interested marketing professionals and practitioners in related fields.