Gelling, and melting, large graphs by edge manipulation

@article{Tong2012GellingAM,
  title={Gelling, and melting, large graphs by edge manipulation},
  author={Hanghang Tong and B. Aditya Prakash and Tina Eliassi-Rad and Michalis Faloutsos and Christos Faloutsos},
  journal={Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management},
  year={2012}
}
  • Hanghang Tong, B. Prakash, C. Faloutsos
  • Published 29 October 2012
  • Computer Science
  • Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Controlling the dissemination of an entity (e.g., meme, virus, etc) on a large graph is an interesting problem in many disciplines. Examples include epidemiology, computer security, marketing, etc. So far, previous studies have mostly focused on removing or inoculating nodes to achieve the desired outcome. We shift the problem to the level of edges and ask: which edges should we add or delete in order to speed-up or contain a dissemination? First, we propose effective and scalable algorithms to… 
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