Blocking simple and complex contagion by edge removal

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 399-408

  Kuhlman, Chris J ^a   Tuli, Gaurav ^a   Swarup, Samarth ^a   Marathe, Madhav V ^a   Ravi, S S ^b  

^a VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

complex contagion; contagion blocking; simple contagion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894681477     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2013.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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