In emerging 5G wireless systems, Mobile Social Networks (MSN) will play an important role
for providing data services and offloading data traffic from cellular networks. MSNs are …

Social networks are critical in terms of information or malware propagation. However, how to
contain the spreading of malware in social networks is still an open and challenging issue …

Although most existing models focus on the evaluation of social influence in online social
networks, failing to characterize indirect influence. So we present a novel framework for …

Locating significant spreaders in social networks is an important issue for optimizing network
structures so as to enhance the robustness of a system. While traditional methods are …

Abstract Information diffusion is an important and attractive field of research in the area of
social network analysis, and is at the heart of many studies and applications of knowledge …

In this paper, we perform social influence analysis using a massive mobile phone dataset
with two applications that are salient to the success of Mobile Network Operators (MNO) …

Influential nodes are rare in social networks, but their influence can quickly spread to most
nodes in the network. Identifying influential nodes allows us to better control epidemic …

There has been a significant body of work on evaluating node criticality in information
networks. However, most of the existing works are developed for static networks and are not …

Information diffusion mechanisms based on social influence models are mainly studied
using likelihood of adoption when active neighbors expose a user to a message. The …

With the prosperity of social networks, the research of influence maximization has become
growing importance and captured increasing attention from various disciplines. The key …