This article presents a restricted maximum likelihood-based algorithm to estimate who influences whose opinions and to what degree when agents share their opinions over large online social networks such as Twitter. The proposed algorithm uses multi-core processing and distributed computing to...

This article describes how the average path length (APL) of a network is an important metric that provides insights on the interconnectivity in a network and how much time and effort would be required for search and navigation on that network. However, the estimation of APL is time-consuming as...