Abstract
This lecture overviews Information Diffusion that has many applications in Network Theory, Web Science, Political Science, Marketing and Social Media Analytics. It covers the following topics in detail: Basics of Information Diffusion. Social Network Diffusion Models: Ising Model, Epidemic Diffusion Models, Cascade Models, Threshold Models, Game Theory Models, Nature-Inspired Model Influence Models, Influence Models.
Applications of Information Diffusion: Rumor-diffusion, Cross-Media Information Diffusion, Viral marketing. Emergency situation management, Collaborative filtering, Citation networks.
Forest-fire information diffusion model.
Opinion leader detection methods.
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