Diffusion in Social Networks

by Paulo Shakarian, Ruocheng Guo, Elham Shaabani, et al.

This book presents the leading models of social network diffusion that are used to demonstrate the spread of disease, ideas, and behavior. It introduces diffusion models from the fields of computer science (independent cascade and linear threshold), sociology (tipping models), physics (voter models), biology (evolutionary models), and epidemiology (SIR/SIS and related models). A variety of properties and problems related to these models are discussed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319231049
• ISBN13: 9783319231044
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 101 Pages