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On some tractable and hard instances for partial incentives and target set selection

05/25/2018
by   Stefan Ehard, et al.
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A widely studied model for influence diffusion in social networks are target sets. For a graph G and an integer-valued threshold function τ on its vertex set, a target set or dynamic monopoly is a set of vertices of G such that iteratively adding to it vertices u of G that have at least τ(u) neighbors in it eventually yields the entire vertex set of G. This notion is limited to the binary choice of including a vertex in the target set or not, and Cordasco et al. proposed partial incentives as a variant allowing for intermediate choices. We show that finding optimal partial incentives is hard for chordal graphs and planar graphs but tractable for graphs of bounded treewidth and for interval graphs with bounded thresholds. We also contribute some new results about target set seletion on planar graphs by showing the hardness of this problem, and by describing an efficient O(√(n))-approximation algorithm as well as a PTAS for the dual problem of finding a maximum degenerate set.

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