How well-connected individuals help spread influences -- analyses based on preferential voter model

• Main Authors: Lee, Zhuo Qi, Hsu, Wen-Jing, Lin, Miao
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98796; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12684
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The spread of influence in a network is a fundamental issue in many complex systems. For instance, the word of-mouth effect in a social network is crucial to the emerging viral market. The process was previously analyzed with a voter model where an individual weighs the opinions of his acquaintances...