Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

Abstract: Due to important applications in viral marketing, influence maximization (IM) has become a well-studied problem. It aims at finding a small subset of initial users so that they can deliver ...

Everyone should care about privacy and security of their communications - innocuous conversations can put you in danger even if there is nothing to hide. One of the most shocking stories is the ...