Tighter Dual Bounds on the Least Cost Influence Problem

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  • Presentation type: Trabalho completo (oral)
  • Track: 14. OC – Otimização Combinatória
  • Keywords: Integer Programming; Social Networks; Diffusion of information;
  • 1 Universidade Federal do Paraná
  • 2 Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Tighter Dual Bounds on the Least Cost Influence Problem

Renato Silva de Melo

Universidade Federal do Paraná

Abstract

The Least Cost Influence Problem is a combinatorial problem that is usually described in the context of social networks. The objective is to give incentives to a set of individuals in the network, such that some information is spread at minimum cost. We provide an efficient algorithm to get lower bounds in a branch-and-bound scheme, and use these in a Branch-and-Cut method. Computational results show the benefit of using our proposed bounds.

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