The recent serious cases of spreading false information have posed a significant threat to
the social stability and even national security, urgently requiring all circles to respond …

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a major problem in hospital infection control.
Although HAIs can be suppressed using contact precautions, such precautions are …

Information cascade in online social networks can be rather negative, eg, the spread of
rumors may trigger panic. To limit the influence of misinformation in an effective and efficient …

Social networks form a major parts of people's lives, and individuals often make important
life decisions based on information that spreads through these networks. For this reason, it is …

The occurrence of diffusion on a graph is a prevalent and significant phenomenon, as
evidenced by the spread of rumors, influenza-like viruses, smart grid failures, and similar …

Suppose there is a spreading process propagating on a weighted graph. Denote the graph's
weight matrix as W. How would we reduce the number of nodes affected during the …

Identifying shortest paths between nodes in a network is a common graph analysis problem
that is important for many applications involving routing of resources. An adversary that can …

Branching processes are discrete-time stochastic processes which have been largely
employed to model and simulate information diffusion processes over large online social …

Research has shown that police officer involved shootings, misconduct and excessive use of
force complaints exhibit network effects, where officers are at greater risk of being involved …

The function or performance of a network is strongly dependent on its robustness, which
quantifies the ability of the network to continue functioning under perturbations. While a wide …