Information source detection via maximum a posteriori estimation

• Main Authors: CHANG, Biao, ZHU, Feida, CHEN, Enhong, LIU, Qi.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Greedy search; Information source detection; Likelihood approximation; Maximum a posteriori; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3137; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4137/viewcontent/information_source_detection.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The problem of information source detection, whose goal is to identify the source of a piece of information from a diffusion process (e.g., computer virus, rumor, epidemic, and so on), has attracted ever-increasing attention from research community in recent years. Although various methods have been...