Near-Optimal Algorithms for Controlling Propagation at Group Scale on Networks

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3339-3352

  Zhang, Yao ^a   Adiga, Abhijin ^b   Saha, Sudip ^a,b   Vullikanti, Anil ^a,b   Prakash, B Aditya ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion; Graph mining; groups; immunization; social networks

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DISEASE CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; CONTACT NETWORKS; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; GRAPH MINING; GROUPS; NEAR-OPTIMAL ALGORITHMS; PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS; SYNTHETIC DATASETS;

IMMUNIZATION;

EID: 85027513729     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2016.2605088     Document Type: Article

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