A survey on influence maximization in a social network

S Banerjee, M Jenamani, DK Pratihar - Knowledge and Information …, 2020 - Springer
Given a social network with diffusion probabilities as edge weights and a positive integer k,
which k nodes should be chosen for initial injection of information to maximize the influence …

A two-stage VIKOR assisted multi-operator differential evolution approach for Influence Maximization in social networks

TK Biswas, A Abbasi, RK Chakrabortty - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of online social networking on daily life is extending beyond personal
boundaries, becoming a tool for financial activities and even public well-being. Interactions …

Multi-round influence maximization

L Sun, W Huang, PS Yu, W Chen - Proceedings of the 24th ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we study the Multi-Round Influence Maximization (MRIM) problem, where
influence propagates in multiple rounds independently from possibly different seed sets, and …

PIANO: Influence maximization meets deep reinforcement learning

H Li, M Xu, SS Bhowmick, JS Rayhan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since its introduction in 2003, the influence maximization (IM) problem has drawn significant
research attention in the literature. The aim of IM, which is NP-hard, is to select a set of users …

Influence maximization considering fairness: A multi-objective optimization approach with prior knowledge

H Gong, C Guo - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
The influence maximization problem (IMP) has been one of the most attractive topics in the
field of social networks. However, sometimes fairness in IMP should be considered …

Efficiently targeted billboard advertising using crowdsensing vehicle trajectory data

L Wang, Z Yu, D Yang, H Ma… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Different from online promotion, the outdoor billboard advertising industry suffers from a lack
of audience-targeted delivery and quantitative dissemination evaluation, which undermine …

A survey on location-driven influence maximization

T Cai, QZ Sheng, X Song, J Yang, S Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Influence Maximization (IM), which aims to select a set of users from a social network to
maximize the expected number of influenced users, is an evergreen hot research topic. Its …

Influence maximization in real-world closed social networks

S Huang, W Lin, Z Bao, J Sun - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.10286, 2022 - arxiv.org
In the last few years, many closed social networks such as WhatsAPP and WeChat have
emerged to cater for people's growing demand of privacy and independence. In a closed …

Efficient approximation algorithms for adaptive influence maximization

K Huang, J Tang, K Han, X Xiao, W Chen, A Sun… - The VLDB Journal, 2020 - Springer
Given a social network G and an integer k, the influence maximization (IM) problem asks for
a seed set S of k nodes from G to maximize the expected number of nodes influenced via a …

Rl4co: an extensive reinforcement learning for combinatorial optimization benchmark

F Berto, C Hua, J Park, L Luttmann, Y Ma, F Bu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce RL4CO, an extensive reinforcement learning (RL) for combinatorial
optimization (CO) benchmark. RL4CO employs state-of-the-art software libraries as well as …