TY - GEN
T1 - Recovering social networks from contagion information
AU - Soundarajan, Sucheta
AU - Hopcroft, John E.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Many algorithms for analyzing social networks assume that the structure of the network is known, but this is not always a reasonable assumption. We wish to reconstruct an underlying network given data about how some property, such as disease, has spread through the network. Properties may spread through a network in different ways: for instance, an individual may learn information as soon as one of his neighbors has learned that information, but political beliefs may follow a different type of model. We create algorithms for discovering underlying networks that would give rise to the diffusion in these models.
AB - Many algorithms for analyzing social networks assume that the structure of the network is known, but this is not always a reasonable assumption. We wish to reconstruct an underlying network given data about how some property, such as disease, has spread through the network. Properties may spread through a network in different ways: for instance, an individual may learn information as soon as one of his neighbors has learned that information, but political beliefs may follow a different type of model. We create algorithms for discovering underlying networks that would give rise to the diffusion in these models.
KW - Contagion
KW - Diffusion
KW - Graph Algorithms
KW - Social Networks
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-13562-0_38
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-13562-0_38
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77954433491
SN - 3642135617
SN - 9783642135613
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 419
EP - 430
BT - Theory and Applications of Models of Computation - 7th Annual Conference, TAMC 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 7th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2010
Y2 - 7 June 2010 through 11 June 2010
ER -