Broker-based ad allocation in social networks

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buir.advisorFerhatosmanoğlu, Hakan
dc.contributor.authorGür, İzzeddin
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T18:25:34Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T18:25:34Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.departmentDepartment of Computer Engineeringen_US
dc.descriptionAnkara : The Department of Computer Engineering and the Graduate School of Engineering and Science of Bilkent University, 2013.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2013.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references leaves 47-51.en_US
dc.description.abstractWith the rapid growth of social networking services, there has been an explosion in the area of viral marketing research. The idea is to explore the marketing value of social networks with respect to increasing the adoption of a new innovation/product, or generating brand awareness. A common technique employed is to target a small set of users that will result in a large cascade of further adoptions. Existing formulations and solutions in the literature generally focus on the case of a single company. Yet, the problem gets more challenging if there are a number of companies (the advertisers), each one aiming to create a viral advertising campaign of its own by paying a set of network users (the endorsers). The endorsers are asked to post intriguing and entertaining ad messages that contain the content selected by the advertising company. The advertiser has a predefined budget on how much it is going to spend on this effort. Also each endorser has a limit on the number of companies for which it serves as an endorser. In this thesis, we design a broker system as an intermediary between advertisers and endorsers. We seek to maximize the spread of advertisements over regular users (the audience), while considering the budget constraints of advertisers. Our system avoids overburdening of the endorsers and overloading of the audience. We model the problem through a combinatorial optimization framework with budget constraints. We develop a cost-effective algorithm called CEAL, which is designed for solving the problem with close to optimal performance on large-scale graphs. We also revisit the traditional Independent Cascade Model (ICM) to account for overloaded users. We propose an extension of ICM called Independent Cascade Model with Overload (ICMO). We study the influence maximization problem on variations of this model. We perform experiments over multiple real-world social networks and empirically show that the proposed CEAL algorithm performs close to optimal in terms of coverage, yet is sufficiently lightweight to execute on large-scale graphs.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.S.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityGür, İzzeddinen_US
dc.format.extentxi, 51 leaves, graphicsen_US
dc.identifier.itemidB139408
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/15851
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectSocial Networksen_US
dc.subjectSubmodular Welfare Problemen_US
dc.subjectInfluence Maximization Problemen_US
dc.subjectAd Allocationen_US
dc.subjectViral Marketingen_US
dc.subject.lccTK5105.88817 .G87 2013en_US
dc.subject.lcshOnline social networks.en_US
dc.subject.lcshSocial networks--Data processing.en_US
dc.subject.lcshInternet marketing.en_US
dc.subject.lcshInternet advertising.en_US
dc.subject.lcshViral marketing.en_US
dc.subject.lcshSocial networks--Computer network resources.en_US
dc.subject.lcshBranding (Marketing)--Computer network resources.en_US
dc.titleBroker-based ad allocation in social networksen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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