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Probing Limits of Information Spread with Sequential Seeding
We consider here information spread which propagates with certain probability
from nodes just activated to their not yet activated neighbors. Diffusion
cascades can be triggered by activation of even a small set of nodes. Such
activation is commonly performed in a single stage. A novel approach based on
sequential seeding is analyzed here resulting in three fundamental
contributions. First, we propose a coordinated execution of randomized choices
to enable precise comparison of different algorithms in general. We apply it
here when the newly activated nodes at each stage of spreading attempt to
activate their neighbors. Then, we present a formal proof that sequential
seeding delivers at least as large coverage as the single stage seeding does.
Moreover, we also show that, under modest assumptions, sequential seeding
achieves coverage provably better than the single stage based approach using
the same number of seeds and node ranking. Finally, we present experimental
results showing how single stage and sequential approaches on directed and
undirected graphs compare to the well-known greedy approach to provide the
objective measure of the sequential seeding benefits. Surprisingly, applying
sequential seeding to a simple degree-based selection leads to higher coverage
than achieved by the computationally expensive greedy approach currently
considered to be the best heuristic
Seeds Buffering for Information Spreading Processes
Seeding strategies for influence maximization in social networks have been
studied for more than a decade. They have mainly relied on the activation of
all resources (seeds) simultaneously in the beginning; yet, it has been shown
that sequential seeding strategies are commonly better. This research focuses
on studying sequential seeding with buffering, which is an extension to basic
sequential seeding concept. The proposed method avoids choosing nodes that will
be activated through the natural diffusion process, which is leading to better
use of the budget for activating seed nodes in the social influence process.
This approach was compared with sequential seeding without buffering and single
stage seeding. The results on both real and artificial social networks confirm
that the buffer-based consecutive seeding is a good trade-off between the final
coverage and the time to reach it. It performs significantly better than its
rivals for a fixed budget. The gain is obtained by dynamic rankings and the
ability to detect network areas with nodes that are not yet activated and have
high potential of activating their neighbours.Comment: Jankowski, J., Br\'odka, P., Michalski, R., & Kazienko, P. (2017,
September). Seeds Buffering for Information Spreading Processes. In
International Conference on Social Informatics (pp. 628-641). Springe
Online Influence Maximization in Non-Stationary Social Networks
Social networks have been popular platforms for information propagation. An
important use case is viral marketing: given a promotion budget, an advertiser
can choose some influential users as the seed set and provide them free or
discounted sample products; in this way, the advertiser hopes to increase the
popularity of the product in the users' friend circles by the world-of-mouth
effect, and thus maximizes the number of users that information of the
production can reach. There has been a body of literature studying the
influence maximization problem. Nevertheless, the existing studies mostly
investigate the problem on a one-off basis, assuming fixed known influence
probabilities among users, or the knowledge of the exact social network
topology. In practice, the social network topology and the influence
probabilities are typically unknown to the advertiser, which can be varying
over time, i.e., in cases of newly established, strengthened or weakened social
ties. In this paper, we focus on a dynamic non-stationary social network and
design a randomized algorithm, RSB, based on multi-armed bandit optimization,
to maximize influence propagation over time. The algorithm produces a sequence
of online decisions and calibrates its explore-exploit strategy utilizing
outcomes of previous decisions. It is rigorously proven to achieve an
upper-bounded regret in reward and applicable to large-scale social networks.
Practical effectiveness of the algorithm is evaluated using both synthetic and
real-world datasets, which demonstrates that our algorithm outperforms previous
stationary methods under non-stationary conditions.Comment: 10 pages. To appear in IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2016. Full versio
Aquaculture Asia, vol. 8, no. 3, pp.1-58, July - September 2003
CONTENTS:
Ornamental Fish Farming â Successful
Small Scale Aqua business in India, by
Abalika Ghosh, B. K. Mahapatra and N.C. Datta.
Tilapia: A species for Indian
Aquaculture? by Graham Mair.
Peri-urban food production
in Southeast Asia, by Peter Edwards.
Shrimp Farming Practices and its Socio-
Economic Consequences in East Godavari
District, Andhra Pradesh, India - A Case
Study, by M.Kumaran, P.Ravichandran, B.P.Gupta and A.Nagavel.
Breeding technique of Malaysian golden
arowana, Scleropages formosus in
concrete tanks, by
Mohamad Zaini Suleiman.
Captive Breeding of Peacock Eel,
Macrognathus aculeatus, by
S.K.Das and N. Kalita.
Substrate based aquaculture
systems: Farmer innovation withstands scientific scrutiny and proves robust, by M.C. Nandeesha. [Farmers as Scientists series]
Extension in shrimp health management:
experiences from an MPEDA/NACA
program in Andhra Pradesh, India, by
PA Padiyar, MJ Phillips, M Primphon, CV Mohan, BV Bhat, VS Rao, G Ravi
Babu, ABCh Mohan, GN Murthy and P Chanratchakool.
The status and treatment of serious
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China, by Yang Xianle and Huang Yanping.
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Improvement of larval rearing technique for
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Peter Edwards writes on rural aquaculture: Myanmar revisited.
Harvesting, traditional preservation and marketing of
fishes of Chalan Beel, Bangladesh, by Galib, S.M. and Samad, M.A.
Role of community in production and supply of larger, quality fingerlings, by Radheyshyam, De, H.K. and Saha, G.S.
Can rice-fish farming provide food security in Bangladesh? by Ahmed, N. and Luong-Van, J.
Nutritional and food security for rural poor through multi-commodity production from a lake of eastern Uttar Pradesh, by Singh, S.K.
Emerging boost in Sri Lankan reservoir fish production: a case of adoption of past research findings, by
Amarasinghe, U.S., Weerakoon, D.E.M., Athukorala, D.A.
Farming the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium malcolmsonii, by
Radheyshyam
Breeding and seed production of butter catfish, Ompok pabda (Siluridae) at Kalyani Centre of CIFA, India, by
Chakrabarti, P.P., Chakrabarty, N.M. and Mondal, S.C.
Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish Aquaculture Magazine
Use of fish in animal feeds: a fresh perspective
National strategies for aquatic animal health management, by Mohan, C.V.
NACA Newsletter
How to Influence People with Partial Incentives
We study the power of fractional allocations of resources to maximize
influence in a network. This work extends in a natural way the well-studied
model by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (2003), where a designer selects a
(small) seed set of nodes in a social network to influence directly, this
influence cascades when other nodes reach certain thresholds of neighbor
influence, and the goal is to maximize the final number of influenced nodes.
Despite extensive study from both practical and theoretical viewpoints, this
model limits the designer to a binary choice for each node, with no way to
apply intermediate levels of influence. This model captures some settings
precisely, e.g. exposure to an idea or pathogen, but it fails to capture very
relevant concerns in others, for example, a manufacturer promoting a new
product by distributing five "20% off" coupons instead of giving away one free
product.
While fractional versions of problems tend to be easier to solve than
integral versions, for influence maximization, we show that the two versions
have essentially the same computational complexity. On the other hand, the two
versions can have vastly different solutions: the added flexibility of
fractional allocation can lead to significantly improved influence. Our main
theoretical contribution is to show how to adapt the major positive results
from the integral case to the fractional case. Specifically, Mossel and Roch
(2006) used the submodularity of influence to obtain their integral results; we
introduce a new notion of continuous submodularity, and use this to obtain
matching fractional results. We conclude that we can achieve the same greedy
-approximation for the fractional case as the integral case.
In practice, we find that the fractional model performs substantially better
than the integral model, according to simulations on real-world social network
data
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