A key challenge for estimating the epidemiological parameters of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan is the discrepancy between the officially reported number of infections and the true number of infections. A common approach to tackling the challenge is to use the number of infections exported from...

Top persuaders in a social network are social entities whose adoption of a product or service will result in the largest numbers of other entities in the network to adopt the same product or service. Predicting top persuaders is critical to an expanding array of important social network-centric...

Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) techniques have been extensively employed to extract knowledge from massive data stores to support decision making in a wide range of critical applications. Maintaining the currency of discovered knowledge over evolving data sources is a fundamental...