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  1. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

    Cindy Hui

  2. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

    William A. Wallace

  3. Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

    Malik Magdon-Ismail & Mark Goldberg

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Hui, C., Wallace, W.A., Magdon-Ismail, M., Goldberg, M. (2014). Actionable Information in Social Networks, Diffusion of. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_286

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