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

Table 5

The influence spread results for the NetScience network.

Algorithms	k = 3	k = 5	k = 10	k = 15	k = 20	k = 25	k = 30	k = 35	k = 40
NDBFO	9.7087	15.337	26.954	39.27	42.492	52.103	60.721	66.574	74.188
Degree	8.8242	13.107	25.158	32.091	35.483	37.33	43.51	53.17	61.244
Distance	3.438	5.5254	10.6	15.791	20.622	25.941	30.985	40.273	45.539
DegreeDiscount	8.8242	14.011	25.401	35.286	44.191	52.1	59.787	63.697	65.732
PageRank	8.1711	13.118	22.477	30.524	39.292	47.683	55.237	62.757	69.488
DBFO	8.9532	14.031	25.403	35.235	43.827	51.886	59.317	65.690	73.315