Information diffusion in online social networks is induced by the event of forwarding information for users, and latency exists widely in user spreading behaviors. Little work has been done to reveal the effect of lat...Information diffusion in online social networks is induced by the event of forwarding information for users, and latency exists widely in user spreading behaviors. Little work has been done to reveal the effect of latency on the diffusion process. In this paper, we propose a propagation model in which nodes may suspend their spreading actions for a waiting period of stochastic length. These latent nodes may recover their activity again. Meanwhile, the mechanism of forwarding information is also introduced into the diffusion model. Mean-field analysis and numerical simulations indicate that our model has three nontrivial results. First, the spreading threshold does not correlate with latency in neither homogeneous nor heterogeneous networks, but depends on the spreading and refractory parameter. Furthermore, latency affects the diffusion process and changes the infection scale. A large or small latency parameter leads to a larger final diffusion extent, but the intrinsic dynamics is different. Large latency implies forwarding information rapidly, while small latency prevents nodes from dropping out of interactions. In addition, the betweenness is a better descriptor to identify influential nodes in the model with latency, compared with the coreness and degree. These results are helpful in understanding some collective phenomena of the diffusion process and taking measures to restrain a rumor in social networks.展开更多
Based on user's in-degree distribution, traditional ranking algorithms of user's weight usually neglect the considerations of the differences among user's followers and the features of user's tweets. In order to a...Based on user's in-degree distribution, traditional ranking algorithms of user's weight usually neglect the considerations of the differences among user's followers and the features of user's tweets. In order to analyze the factors which impact on user's weight, under the analysis of the data collected from SINA Microblog network, this paper discovers that user influence and active degrees are the dominant factors for this issue. The proposed algorithm evaluates user influence by user's follower number, the influence of user's followers and the reciprocity between users. User's active degree is modeled by user's participation and the quality of user's tweets. The models are tested by different data groups to confirm the parameters for the final calculation. Eventually, this paper compares the computational results with the user's ranking order given by the SINA official application. The performance of this algorithm presents a stronger stability on the fluctuant range of the value of user's weight.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61401015 and 61271308)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(Grant No.2014JBM018)the Talent Fund of Beijing Jiaotong University,China(Grant No.2015RC013)
文摘Information diffusion in online social networks is induced by the event of forwarding information for users, and latency exists widely in user spreading behaviors. Little work has been done to reveal the effect of latency on the diffusion process. In this paper, we propose a propagation model in which nodes may suspend their spreading actions for a waiting period of stochastic length. These latent nodes may recover their activity again. Meanwhile, the mechanism of forwarding information is also introduced into the diffusion model. Mean-field analysis and numerical simulations indicate that our model has three nontrivial results. First, the spreading threshold does not correlate with latency in neither homogeneous nor heterogeneous networks, but depends on the spreading and refractory parameter. Furthermore, latency affects the diffusion process and changes the infection scale. A large or small latency parameter leads to a larger final diffusion extent, but the intrinsic dynamics is different. Large latency implies forwarding information rapidly, while small latency prevents nodes from dropping out of interactions. In addition, the betweenness is a better descriptor to identify influential nodes in the model with latency, compared with the coreness and degree. These results are helpful in understanding some collective phenomena of the diffusion process and taking measures to restrain a rumor in social networks.
基金supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China under Grant No. 61172072the Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant No. 4112045the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. 2011YJS215
文摘Based on user's in-degree distribution, traditional ranking algorithms of user's weight usually neglect the considerations of the differences among user's followers and the features of user's tweets. In order to analyze the factors which impact on user's weight, under the analysis of the data collected from SINA Microblog network, this paper discovers that user influence and active degrees are the dominant factors for this issue. The proposed algorithm evaluates user influence by user's follower number, the influence of user's followers and the reciprocity between users. User's active degree is modeled by user's participation and the quality of user's tweets. The models are tested by different data groups to confirm the parameters for the final calculation. Eventually, this paper compares the computational results with the user's ranking order given by the SINA official application. The performance of this algorithm presents a stronger stability on the fluctuant range of the value of user's weight.