• DocumentCode
    145613
  • Title

    Ranking Users Based on Influence in a Directional Social Network

  • Author

    Reilly, Christine F. ; Salinas, Dave ; De Leon, David

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    10-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    237
  • Lastpage
    240
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the preliminary work on a study that ranks users in a directional social network by their influence during a particular time period. Our method considers a user with high influence to be one who has a high ratio of forwarded messages to the number of messages she posts. After implementing our influence ranking program, we plan to compare our method with others in the literature. This comparison will evaluate the similarity of the lists of influential users that are generated by these different methods. We will also evaluate the ease of use and time required by each of the influence calculation methods.
  • Keywords
    social networking (online); directional social network; forwarded messages; influence calculation methods; influential user list similarity; user ranking program; Educational institutions; Facebook; Media; Size measurement; Terminology; Twitter; big data in social media;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), 2014 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSCI.2014.127
  • Filename
    6822338