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Area of Science:

  • Social Network Analysis
  • Information Science
  • Computer Science

Background:

  • Microblogging platforms are primary information sources for many users.
  • The sheer volume of daily posts makes identifying influential users challenging.
  • Existing influence detection methods, like PageRank, often overlook interaction data and topic-specific user roles.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel multi-topic influence diffusion model (MTID) for identifying influential users in social networks.
  • To develop a method that accounts for both direct and indirect influence, as well as topic-specific user engagement.
  • To introduce a topic-dependent rank (TD-Rank) algorithm for more nuanced influence measurement.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a multi-topic influence diffusion model (MTID) incorporating direct and indirect influence.
  • Introduced 'topic pools' to represent different information sources and model a multi-topical network view.
  • Extracted topic distributions from historical tweet data to calculate influence and content generation probabilities.
  • Proposed the topic-dependent rank (TD-Rank) algorithm for identifying multi-topic influential users.

Main Results:

  • The MTID model effectively decomposes user influence into direct and indirect components.
  • The TD-Rank algorithm successfully identifies influential users based on specific topics.
  • Experiments on a Weibo dataset demonstrate the model's effectiveness and robustness compared to traditional methods.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed MTID model and TD-Rank algorithm offer a more accurate and comprehensive approach to influence analysis in social networks.
  • Distinguishing influence based on topics is crucial for understanding information diffusion dynamics.
  • The findings have implications for targeted information dissemination and user engagement strategies.