Heuristic Strategies for Persuader Selection in Contagions on Complex Networks

• Main Authors: Wang, Peng, Zhang, Li-Jie, Xu, Xin-Jian, Xiao, Gaoxi
• Other Authors: Sendiña-Nadal, Irene
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Centrality; Behavior
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83495; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42633
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Individual decision to accept a new idea or product is often driven by both self-adoption and others’ persuasion, which has been simulated using a double threshold model [Huang et al., Scientific Reports 6, 23766 (2016)]. We extend the study to consider the case with limited persuasion. That is, a s...