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How to Code Independent Cascade Model of Information Diffusion

Social Network is increasing its popularity, and one of the important research areas within this field is Information Diffusion. Information diffusion is the process by which a new idea or innovation spread over the networks by the means of communication among the social entities [ 6]. There are two widely used information diffusion mode (i) Threshold Model of Diffusion [ 3] and (ii) Cascade Model of Diffusion [ 1, 2]. Simplest and popular form of Cascade Model is Independent Cascade Model (ICM) [ 1].