The field of influence maximization (IM) has made rapid advances, resulting in many sophisticated algorithms for identifying “influential” members in social networks. However, in order to engender trust in IM algorithms, the rationale behind their choice of “influential” nodes needs to be explained to its users. This is a challenging open problem that needs to be solved before these algorithms ...

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Observations and measurements indicate rain often has a major impact on snow slope stability. Measurements to investigate the effects of wetting of low density, alpine snow were made at Snoqualmie Pass, WA, USA. Results indicate that on first wetting, the densification rate can increase by three orders of magnitude. This initial burst of densification occurs independently of the gravitational l...

We describe recent observations and measurements realized with microstrip gas chambers (MSGCs) manufactured on boro-silicate glass coated with a thin layer of diamond-like carbon (DLC) having a surface resistivity around 4.1016Ω/❒. The role of the back-plane electrode configuration and potential in the detector performance has been studied. Even for this very high resistivity of the coatings, M...

Understanding and controlling spreading dynamics in networks presupposes the identification of those influential nodes that will trigger an efficient information diffusion. It has been shown that the best spreaders are the ones located in the core of the network – as produced by the k-core decomposition. In this paper we further refine the set of the most influential nodes, showing that the nod...

In distributed applications, a group of multiple objects are cooperated to achieve some objectives. The computation on the objects are based on the massage passing, i.e. remote procedure call. The objects may su er from kinds of faults. In the presence of the object faults, the states of the objects in the system have to be kept consistent. If some object o is faulty, o is rolled back to the ch...

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Spreading is a ubiquitous process in the social, biological and technological systems. Therefore, identifying influential spreaders, which is important to prevent epidemic spreading and to establish effective vaccination strategies, is full of theoretical and practical significance. In this paper, a weighted h-index centrality based on virtual nodes extension is proposed to quantify the spreadi...