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Network Diffusion Models

Network diffusion models are a family of compartmental and probabilistic frameworks that simulate how information, disease, or innovation spreads across a connected system. Rooted in the mathematical epidemiology of Kermack and McKendrick (1927), the SIR and SIS models partition nodes into states and track transitions driven by contact rates and recovery probabilities. The Independent Cascade and Linear Threshold models, formalised by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (2003), extend this logic to social influence, modelling how activation propagates through a network one neighbour at a time.

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Network Diffusion Models (SIR, SIS, Independent Cascade)
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  • Kermack, W.O. & McKendrick, A.G. (1927). A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Epidemics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, 115(772), 700-721. · DOI 10.1098/rspa.1927.0118
  • Kempe, D., Kleinberg, J., & Tardos, E. (2003). Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network. Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 137-146. · DOI 10.1145/956750.956769
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