Social influence and its applications : an algorithmic and data mining study

Social influence occurs when one's actions are affected by others. If leveraged carefully, social influence can be exploited in many applications like viral marketing (or targeted advertising in general), recommender systems, social network analysis, events detection, experts finding, link pred...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goyal, Amit
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43935