Optimal budget allocation in social networks: Quality or seeding?

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 2015-February, Issue February, 2014, Pages 4455-4460

  Fazeli, Arastoo ^a   Ajorlou, Amir ^a   Jadbabaie, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION;

BEST RESPONSE DYNAMICS; BUDGET ALLOCATION; OPTIMAL ALLOCATION; PRODUCT CONSUMPTION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF PRODUCT; STRATEGIC MODELING; SUBSTITUTABLE PRODUCTS;

BUDGET CONTROL;

EID: 84988239811     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2014.7040084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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