Trial and error in influential social networks

• Main Authors: BEI, Xiaohui, CHEN, Ning, DOU, Liyu, HUANG, Xiangru, QIANG, Ruixin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Benchmark testing; Community detection; Influence maximizations; Information diffusion; Large-scale collaboration; Marketing strategy; Network community structures; Trial and error; Econometrics; Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2724; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3723/viewcontent/influence.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we introduce a trial-And-error model to study information diffusion in a social network. Specifically, in every discrete period, all individuals in the network concurrently try a new technology or product with certain respective probabilities. If it turns out that an individual observ...