The ongoing rapid expansion of the Word Wide Web (WWW) greatly increases the
information of effective transmission from heterogeneous individuals to various systems …

Current social networks are of extremely large-scale generating tremendous information
flows at every moment. How information diffuses over social networks has attracted much …

Social networks have become ubiquitous in our daily life, as such they have attracted great
research interests recently. A key challenge is that it is of extremely large-scale with …

In recent years, research on diffusion process in social networks has grown in a variety of
fields including computer science, physics, and biology. However, often times research in …

Recently, information transmission models motivated by the classical epidemic propagation,
have been applied to a wide-range of social systems, generally assume that information …

As a social media, online social networks play a vital role in the social information diffusion.
However, due to its unique complexity, the mechanism of the diffusion in online social …

Unlike traditional epidemic virus spreading, behavior diffusion in social networks is
conducted by rational users, who would make strategic choices instead of being randomly …

Recently, large datasets stored on the Internet have enabled the analysis of processes, such
as large-scale diffusions of information, at new levels of detail. In a recent study, Liben …

In computational social science, epidemic-inspired spread models have been widely used to
simulate information diffusion. However, recent empirical studies suggest that simple …

In recent years, significant attention has been paid to diffusion in social networks (SNs),
which is, factually, the collective behavior of a set of autonomous social actors for interacting …