Lobna Azaza, Sergey Kirgizov, Marinette Savonnet, Éric Leclercq, Nicolas Gastineau, Rim Faiz
{"title":"Information fusion-based approach for studying influence on Twitter using belief theory.","authors":"Lobna Azaza, Sergey Kirgizov, Marinette Savonnet, Éric Leclercq, Nicolas Gastineau, Rim Faiz","doi":"10.1186/s40649-016-0030-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-016-0030-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Influence in <i>Twitter</i> has become recently a hot research topic, since this micro-blogging service is widely used to share and disseminate information. Some users are more able than others to influence and persuade peers. Thus, studying most influential users leads to reach a large-scale information diffusion area, something very useful in marketing or political campaigns. In this study, we propose a new approach for multi-level influence assessment on multi-relational networks, such as <i>Twitter</i>. We define a social graph to model the relationships between users as a multiplex graph where users are represented by nodes, and links model the different relations between them (e.g., <i>retweets</i>, <i>mentions</i>, and <i>replies</i>). We explore how relations between nodes in this graph could reveal about the influence degree and propose a generic computational model to assess influence degree of a certain node. This is based on the conjunctive combination rule from the belief functions theory to combine different types of relations. We experiment the proposed method on a large amount of data gathered from <i>Twitter</i> during the European Elections 2014 and deduce top influential candidates. The results show that our model is flexible enough to to consider multiple interactions combination according to social scientists needs or requirements and that the numerical results of the belief theory are accurate. We also evaluate the approach over the CLEF RepLab 2014 data set and show that our approach leads to quite interesting results.</p>","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"3 1","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-016-0030-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35755725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adina Nerghes, Ju-Sung Lee, P. Groenewegen, I. Hellsten
{"title":"Mapping discursive dynamics of the financial crisis: a structural perspective of concept roles in semantic networks","authors":"Adina Nerghes, Ju-Sung Lee, P. Groenewegen, I. Hellsten","doi":"10.1186/s40649-015-0021-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-015-0021-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-015-0021-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65734505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of competitiveness in the Prisoner’s Dilemma","authors":"M. A. Javarone, A. Atzeni","doi":"10.1186/s40649-015-0024-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-015-0024-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-015-0024-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65734637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Calling, texting, and moving: multidimensional interactions of mobile phone users","authors":"Matteo Zignani, C. Quadri, S. Gaito, G. P. Rossi","doi":"10.1186/s40649-015-0020-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-015-0020-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-015-0020-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65734483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Network approach to internet bandwidth distributions","authors":"Hyunjin Seo, S. Thorson","doi":"10.1186/s40649-015-0022-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-015-0022-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-015-0022-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65734553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Borut Sluban, Jasmina Smailovic, S. Battiston, I. Mozetič
{"title":"Sentiment leaning of influential communities in social networks","authors":"Borut Sluban, Jasmina Smailovic, S. Battiston, I. Mozetič","doi":"10.1186/s40649-015-0016-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-015-0016-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-015-0016-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65734439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient network generation under general preferential attachment","authors":"James Atwood, Bruno Ribeiro, D. Towsley","doi":"10.1186/s40649-015-0012-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-015-0012-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-015-0012-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65734378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficiently identifying critical nodes in large complex networks","authors":"M. Ventresca, Dionne Aleman","doi":"10.1186/s40649-015-0010-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-015-0010-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-015-0010-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65734304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Jia, Hualiang Xu, Jingwen Wang, Yiqi Bai, Benyuan Liu, Jie Wang
{"title":"Handling big data of online social networks on a small machine","authors":"Ming Jia, Hualiang Xu, Jingwen Wang, Yiqi Bai, Benyuan Liu, Jie Wang","doi":"10.1186/s40649-015-0014-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-015-0014-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-015-0014-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65734425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael L. Mayo, Ahmed F. Abdelzaher, Preetam Ghosh
{"title":"Long-range degree correlations in complex networks","authors":"Michael L. Mayo, Ahmed F. Abdelzaher, Preetam Ghosh","doi":"10.1186/s40649-015-0011-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-015-0011-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-015-0011-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65734356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}