PhysarumSpreader: A New Bio-Inspired Methodology for Identifying Influential Spreaders in Complex Networks

• Hongping Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hongping Wang, Yajuan Zhang

  Affiliation School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Yajuan Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hongping Wang, Yajuan Zhang

  Affiliation School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Zili Zhang,

  Affiliations School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia

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• Sankaran Mahadevan,

  Affiliation Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America

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• Yong Deng

  * E-mail: ydeng@swu.edu.cn; prof.deng@hotmail.com

  Affiliation School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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