A graph exploration method for identifying influential spreaders in complex networks

Abstract The problem of identifying the influential spreaders - the important nodes - in a real world network is of high importance due to its theoretical interest as well as its practical applications, such as the acceleration of information diffusion, the control of the spread of a disease and the...

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Main Authors: Nikos Salamanos, Elli Voudigari, Emmanuel J. Yannakoudakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-08-01
Series:Applied Network Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-017-0047-y