Pneumonia is a major cause of death among children below the age of 5 years, globally. It is
especially prevalent in developing and underdeveloped nations where the risk factors for …

Single-solution-based optimization algorithms are computationally cheap yet powerful
methods that can be used on various optimization tasks at minimal processing expenses …

A significant challenge in viral marketing is the efficient identification of a group of influential
users within a given network, maximizing the spread of influence, known as influence …

Competitive opinion maximization (COM) aims to determine some individuals (ie, seed
nodes) from social networks, propagating the desired opinions toward a target entity to their …

Abstract The Influence Maximization (IM) problem aims to maximize the diffusion of
information or adoption of products among users within a social network by identifying and …

Viral marketing is a frequently used social marketing strategy which aims to promote
products on various social media. In order to devise an efficient viral marketing strategy …

Community detection (CD) is a powerful way to extract meaningful information from networks
such as political election networks, biological networks, social networks, technological …

The detection of influential individuals in social networks is called influence maximization
which has many applications in advertising and marketing. Several factors including …

Influence maximization (IM) aims to select a small number of nodes that are able to
maximize their influence in a network and covers a wide range of applications. Despite …

Nowadays, much attention has been devoted to the issues of social networks and social
influence. Social influence examines the user's behavioral changes under the influence of …