Interests diffusion in social networks

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2015.05.062zbMATH Open1400.91457arXiv1501.01903OpenAlexW2963547634MaRDI QIDQ1618641FDOQ1618641

Authors: Gregorio D'Agostino, Fulvio D'Antonio, Antonio De Nicola, Salvatore Tucci 

Publication date: 13 November 2018

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Understanding cultural phenomena on Social Networks (SNs) and exploiting the implicit knowledge about their members is attracting the interest of different research communities both from the academic and the business side. The community of complexity science is devoting significant efforts to define laws, models, and theories, which, based on acquired knowledge, are able to predict future observations (e.g. success of a product). In the mean time, the semantic web community aims at engineering a new generation of advanced services by defining constructs, models and methods, adding a semantic layer to SNs. In this context, a leapfrog is expected to come from a hybrid approach merging the disciplines above. Along this line, this work focuses on the propagation of individual interests in social networks. The proposed framework consists of the following main components: a method to gather information about the members of the social networks; methods to perform some semantic analysis of the Domain of Interest; a procedure to infer members' interests; and an interests evolution theory to predict how the interests propagate in the network. As a result, one achieves an analytic tool to measure individual features, such as members' susceptibilities and authorities. Although the approach applies to any type of social network, here it is has been tested against the computer science research community. The DBLP (Digital Bibliography and Library Project) database has been elected as test-case since it provides the most comprehensive list of scientific production in this field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01903

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zbMATH Keywords

social networkscomplex systemssemantic analysisinterest propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

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Cited In (4)

• Socialized ubiquitous personal study: toward an individualized information portal
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• Prediction of competitive diffusion on complex networks

Uses Software

• GenLouvain
• DBpedia
• PRMLT

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