Though it is one of the most significant or rather say it, one of the most appealing problem in the domain of Network Science, but still it suffers from the most primitive flaw – subjectivity. Yes, I am talking about the problem of Community Detection or what some would like to call Clustering. Why did I use the word “subjectivity” ? Because a lot many definitions exist for how a cluster should be? Adding to the problem, there exist various evaluation metric pertaining to one or multiple features of this “definition”. The problem gets worse as usually there is limited or absolutely no ground truth for most of the social…

Ever since I got into reading papers, it has always fascinated how much knowledge can just a 8 page document hold. How can the 8 page document be currently extending the boundaries of human knowledge? By my blog posts, I want to draw attention of readers towards some of the upcoming concepts in the field of network science. Today I would like to illuminate readers about the topic of competitive influence maximization. The problem of influence maximization is quite a well known and has been studied extensively in the past few decades both by economists and computer scientists. However, to just be complete, lets define the problem of influence maximization…