An epidemic model for news spreading on twitter

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 163-169

  Abdullah, Saeed ^a   Wu, Xindong ^a  

^a University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC MODELS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; SPREADING DYNAMICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DYNAMICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 84862911175     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2011.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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