@InProceedings{charikar_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2016.4, author = {Charikar, Moses and Naamad, Yonatan and Wirth, Anthony}, title = {{On Approximating Target Set Selection}}, booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2016)}, pages = {4:1--4:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-018-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {60}, editor = {Jansen, Klaus and Mathieu, Claire and Rolim, Jos\'{e} D. P. and Umans, Chris}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2016.4}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-66274}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2016.4}, annote = {Keywords: target set selection, influence propagation, approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, planted dense subgraph} }