Adaptive Influence Blocking: Minimizing the Negative Spread by Observation-Based Policies

Spread of negative influence (N-Inf) in a networked system seems to be inevitable, e.g., epidemic spread in human networks, rumors in an online social network and computer virus plaguing the Internet etc. The widespread of N-Inf might cause severe damage and hence the Influence Blocking (IB) problem is attracting ample research interest. ...More