Research Article

A New Discrete Grid-Based Bacterial Foraging Optimizer to Solve Complex Influence Maximization of Social Networks

Table 4

The influence spread results for the Football network.

Algorithmsk = 3k = 5k = 10k = 15k = 20k = 25k = 30k = 35k = 40

NDBFO5.80029.580618.89427.32435.28642.98250.26359.8765.365
Degree5.66919.125317.86124.8232.34438.60845.56951.63557.662
Distance5.66919.080416.99524.34231.71238.17744.83350.89855.827
DegreeDiscount5.66919.125317.86126.0933.65840.77647.02253.90859.946
PageRank5.72979.270618.07426.30934.07441.56748.3154.32959.375
DBFO5.76139.532118.73426.8834.44141.84348.67454.60260.574