An Algorithmic Framework for Estimating Rumor Sources With Different Start Times

• Main Authors: Ji, Feng, Tay, Wee Peng, Varshney, Lav R.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Rumor source; Infection source
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81429; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43464
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We study the problem of identifying multiple rumor or infection sources in a network under the susceptible-infected model, and where these sources may start infection spreading at different times. We introduce the notion of an abstract estimator that, given the infection graph, assigns a higher valu...