We prove and extend a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (KKT) on the spread of influence in social networks. A social network can be represented by a directed graph where...
The proliferation of network data in various application domains has raised privacy concerns for the individuals involved. Recent studies show that simply removing the identities ...
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
On demand routing protocols provide scalable and costeffective solutions for packet routing in mobile wireless ad hoc networks. The paths generated by these protocols may deviate ...
We consider the following "efficiently decodable" nonadaptive group testing problem. There is an unknown string x {0, 1}n with at most d ones in it. We are allowed to t...