Title :
The Comprehensive Measurement Model of the Member Importance in Social Networks
Author :
Hu, Ping ; Zhou, Sen ; Ding, Weizhong ; Wang, Wen
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage., Xi´´an Jiaotong Univ. (XJTU), Xi´´an, China
Abstract :
It is proposed that a measurement of the importance of members in an undirected connected network which has weighted nodes and edges. With consideration of the third category of loss, the article built the comprehensive measurement model and algorithm of the member importance and tests it with the data from entrepreneur social networks. The results show that the new model can bring forward a more reliable measuring result of the member importance in social networks.
Keywords :
network theory (graphs); social networking (online); comprehensive measurement model; entrepreneur social networks; loss category; member importance; social networks; undirected connected network; weighted edges; weighted nodes; Attenuation; Biological system modeling; Data models; Loss measurement; Social network services; Weight measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Management and Service Science (MASS), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5325-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5326-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSS.2010.5577405
