Tracking Influential Nodes in Time-Decaying Dynamic Interaction Networks
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Conference PaperKAUST Department
Computer ScienceComputer Science Program
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Date
2019-06-06Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/655951
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Identifying influential nodes that can jointly trigger the maximum influence spread in networks is a fundamental problem in many applications such as viral marketing, online advertising, and disease control. Most existing studies assume that social influence is static and they fail to capture the dynamics of influence in reality. In this work, we address the dynamic influence challenge by designing efficient streaming methods that can identify influential nodes from highly dynamic node interaction streams. We first propose a general time-decaying dynamic interaction network (TDN) model to model node interaction streams with the ability to smoothly discard outdated data. Based on the TDN model, we design three algorithms, i.e., SieveADN, BasicReduction, and HistApprox. SieveADN identifies influential nodes from a special kind of TDNs with efficiency. BasicReduction uses SieveADN as a basic building block to identify influential nodes from general TDNs. HistApprox significantly improves the efficiency of BasicReduction. More importantly, we theoretically show that all three algorithms enjoy constant factor approximation guarantees. Experiments conducted on various real interaction datasets demonstrate that our approach finds near-optimal solutions with speed at least 5 to 15 times faster than baseline methods.Citation
Zhao, J., Shang, S., Wang, P., Lui, J. C. S., & Zhang, X. (2019). Tracking Influential Nodes in Time-Decaying Dynamic Interaction Networks. 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). doi:10.1109/icde.2019.00102Sponsors
We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions to help us improve this paper. This work is financially supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Sensor Initiative, Saudi Arabia. The work of John C.S. Lui was supported in part by the GRF Funding 14208816.Conference/Event name
2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)arXiv
1810.07917Additional Links
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8731541/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8731541
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.07917
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/ICDE.2019.00102