Contagion source detection in epidemic and infodemic outbreaks: Mathematical analysis and network algorithms

CW Tan, PD Yu - Foundations and Trends® in Networking, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
The rapid spread of infectious diseases and online rumors share similarities in terms of their
speed, scale, and patterns of contagion. Although these two phenomena have historically …

Estimating rumor source in social networks using incomplete observer information

RK Devarapalli, A Biswas - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Utilization of observers in social networks for rumor source estimation is quite common.
However, existing observer-based techniques have several drawbacks. Mostly existing …

Information sources estimation in time-varying networks

Y Chai, Y Wang, L Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identifying information sources plays a significant role in network science and engineering.
However, existing source identification approaches generally focus on static networks …

FROST: controlled label propagation for multisource detection

SS Ali, A Rastogi, T Anwar - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We often see rumors rapidly spreading in online social networks. These are harmful for our
society in many ways. Infection source detection is the task of identifying the sources of …

Multiple rumor source identification in social networks leveraging community and monitor information

RK Devarapalli, S Das, A Biswas - Information Fusion, 2024 - Elsevier
Multiple rumor source identification (MRSI) in social networks has become a challenging
problem for controlling rumors from spreading automatically. Even though several …

Mathematical Framework for Online Social Media Auditing

W Huleihel, Y Refael - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2024 - jmlr.org
Social media platforms (SMPs) leverage algorithmic filtering (AF) as a means of selecting
the content that constitutes a user's feed with the aim of maximizing their rewards …

Cross-Domain Social Rumor-Propagation Model Based on Transfer Learning

Y Xiao, J Yang, W Zhao, Q Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rumors in different topic domains have different text characteristics but similar emotional
tendencies. To resolve the scarce-data problem in some rumor-topic domains, this study …

Locating multiple rumor sources in social networks using partial information of monitors

RK Devarapalli, S Das, A Biswas - Computer Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Rumors in social media platforms and the identification of their sources is a challenging
issue in modern-day computer communication. Existing approaches mostly fail to localize …

Quickest inference of network cascades with noisy information

A Sridhar, HV Poor - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of estimating the source of a network cascade given a time series of
noisy information about the spread. Initially, there is a single vertex affected by the cascade …

重大舆情事件的双层区块链溯源方法研究.

刘昕, 王海文, 孙志坚, 杨大伟… - Journal of Computer …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
未来元宇宙是以可信社交网络为基础, 个性化充分发展的世界, 但目前社交网络中信息来源
鱼龙混杂且易篡改, 致使重大舆情事件难以溯源. 针对以上问题, 构建了舆情信息双层区块链实现 …