Evolutionary multiobjective optimization to target social network influentials in viral marketing

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Highlights:

• We apply evolutive multi-objective optimization for the viral marketing problem.

• We consider two conflicting objectives (sales revenue and costs) for the viral campaigns.

• Sets of non-dominated solutions are given to show different viral marketing strategies.

• We propose a novel agent-based modeling framework to simulate the marketing campaigns.

• Different scenarios are tested when applying the multi-objective optimization algorithms.

摘要

•We apply evolutive multi-objective optimization for the viral marketing problem.•We consider two conflicting objectives (sales revenue and costs) for the viral campaigns.•Sets of non-dominated solutions are given to show different viral marketing strategies.•We propose a novel agent-based modeling framework to simulate the marketing campaigns.•Different scenarios are tested when applying the multi-objective optimization algorithms.

论文关键词:Viral marketing,Influence maximization,Influentials targeting,Social networks,Evolutionary multiobjective optimization,Agent-based modeling

论文评审过程:Received 5 October 2019, Revised 17 December 2019, Accepted 3 January 2020, Available online 10 January 2020, Version of Record 21 January 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113183