Many decision-making algorithms draw inspiration from the inner workings of individual biological systems. However, it remains unclear whether collective behaviour among biological species can also ...

Identifying the most influential spreaders as an influence maximization problem (IMP) has become one of the most compelling topics in social network analysis due to its successes in viral marketing.

(a) Performance of two adiabatic paths for finding the maximum independent set. (b) Performance of traditional heuristic adiabatic paths for finding independent sets. Quantum annealing, as a prominent ...