IMine: A CUSTOMIZABLE FRAMEWORK FOR INFLUENCE MINING IN COMPLEX NETWORKS

Author:

HUSSAIN OWAIS A.1ORCID,ZAIDI FARAZ A.2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. College of Computing and Information Sciences, Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

2. York University, Keele Campus, Toronto, Canada

Abstract

The idea of discovering a few nodes with potential to impact an entire network, is known as Influence Maximization (IM) and has many real-world applications which make it one of well-studied research problems in the domain of network analysis. IM typically requires a fixed criteria of budget (number of influential nodes to be identified) as input. The fundamental premise of this research is that the budget is not the sole criteria for real-world applications. This study challenges the conventional method to identify influential nodes, and proves that it requires specification of the stoppage criteria and the model used to quantify influence. We analyze the complex interplay of various criteria that can be used to solve IM problem, and prove that changing the criterion also changes the algorithm determined as the top performer. A number of criteria are presented in this paper apart from budget, such as the spread achieved by the algorithm (in terms of number of nodes influenced) and absolute time. The proposed IMine framework provides an interface to apply influence problem on various stoppage criteria, while also providing customization option to change the model of quantifying influence spread.

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd

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