Branching Process with Attack: Viral Competing Markets
Khushboo Agarwal,
Veeraruna Kavitha
Abstract:The marked increase in advertisements over online social networks (OSNs) necessitates the study of content propagation. We analyse the viral markets with content providers competing for the propagation of similar posts over OSNs. Towards this, we required a new variant of the branching process (BP), which we named as "Branching process with attack"; the entities upon wake up attempt to attack and acquire the opposite population; furthermore, each entity produces its offsprings as is usually considered in BPs.I… Show more
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