There are significant differences between rumor spreading and epidemic spreading in social
networks, especially with consideration of the mutual effect of forgetting and remembering …

Living in a large social group is thought to increase disease risk in wild animal populations,
but comparative studies have provided mixed support for this prediction. Here, we take a …

We study the diffusion of influence in random multiplex networks where links can be of r
different types, and, for a given content (eg, rumor, product, or political view), each link type …

Social network analysis is increasingly used by behavioral ecologists and primatologists to
describe the patterns and quality of interactions among individuals. We provide an overview …

Social network worms, such as email worms and facebook worms, pose a critical security
threat to the Internet. Modeling their propagation dynamics is essential to predict their …

Preventing customer churn is an important task for many enterprises and requires customer
churn prediction. This paper investigates the effects of interpersonal influence on the …

We introduce a generalized rumor spreading model and analytically investigate the
spreading of rumors on scale-free (SF) networks. In the standard rumor spreading model …

The problem of maximizing influence spread has been widely studied in social networks,
because of its tremendous number of applications in determining critical points in a social …

Background: Previous studies have documented the effect of collaboration among
physicians on the effectiveness in delivering health services and in producing better patient …

A differential electronic Susceptible-Infectious-Removed-Susceptible (e-SIRS) epidemic
model of virus and worms in a computer network has been formulated. Latent period …