Influence maximization through identifying seed nodes from implicit social networks

  • Authors:
  • Tieyun Qian;Jiangbo Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China;Bradley University, Peoria, IL

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uniquitous Information Management and Communication
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new type of influence maximization problem, i.e., choosing a smallest subset of members from implicit social networks for maximizing the spread of influence. These kinds of networks differ from some well studied explicit social networks in that the nodes are not directly connected. We propose a reverse k-nearest neighbor approach to measure a user's social network potential (SNP). Further we sequentially select seed nodes with the largest SNP value from the user set. Experimental results on real web data demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed solution.