CONTAIN: A Community-based Algorithm for Network Immunization

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Autores principales: Apostol, Elena-Simona, Coban, Özgur, Truică, Ciprian-Octavian
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Publicado: 2023
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author Apostol, Elena-Simona
Coban, Özgur
Truică, Ciprian-Octavian
author_facet Apostol, Elena-Simona
Coban, Özgur
Truică, Ciprian-Octavian
contents Network immunization is an automated task in the field of network analysis that involves protecting a network (modeled as a graph) from being infected by an undesired arbitrary diffusion. In this article, we consider the spread of harmful content in social networks, and we propose CONTAIN, a novel COmmuNiTy-based Algorithm for network ImmuNization. Our solution uses the network information to (1) detect harmful content spreaders, and (2) generate partitions and rank them for immunization using the subgraphs induced by each spreader, i.e., employing CONTAIN. The experimental results obtained on real-world datasets show that CONTAIN outperforms state-of-the-art solutions, i.e., NetShield and SparseShield, by immunizing the network in fewer iterations, thus, converging significantly faster than the state-of-the-art algorithms. We also compared our solution in terms of scalability with the state-of-the-art tree-based mitigation algorithm MCWDST, as well as with NetShield and SparseShield. We can conclude that our solution outperforms MCWDST and NetShield.
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spellingShingle CONTAIN: A Community-based Algorithm for Network Immunization
Apostol, Elena-Simona
Coban, Özgur
Truică, Ciprian-Octavian
Social and Information Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Network immunization is an automated task in the field of network analysis that involves protecting a network (modeled as a graph) from being infected by an undesired arbitrary diffusion. In this article, we consider the spread of harmful content in social networks, and we propose CONTAIN, a novel COmmuNiTy-based Algorithm for network ImmuNization. Our solution uses the network information to (1) detect harmful content spreaders, and (2) generate partitions and rank them for immunization using the subgraphs induced by each spreader, i.e., employing CONTAIN. The experimental results obtained on real-world datasets show that CONTAIN outperforms state-of-the-art solutions, i.e., NetShield and SparseShield, by immunizing the network in fewer iterations, thus, converging significantly faster than the state-of-the-art algorithms. We also compared our solution in terms of scalability with the state-of-the-art tree-based mitigation algorithm MCWDST, as well as with NetShield and SparseShield. We can conclude that our solution outperforms MCWDST and NetShield.
title CONTAIN: A Community-based Algorithm for Network Immunization
topic Social and Information Networks
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01934