Propagation modeling and analysis of incidental topics in blogosphere

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Abstract

Blog has become one of the most important media among the general public, and the propagation modeling of incidental topics in blogosphere is of great interest in social network studies. Most existing analysis methods are based on the infection models in epidemiology. However, many of these models are inconsistent with the widely observed power-law decay of the propagation velocity. In this paper, the propagation of incidental topics is described by a susceptible infection (SI) model based on the individual fitness. It is proved that the propagation velocity will asymptotically drop with power-law if the fitness density function satisfies certain conditions. Moreover, if the individual fitness is of uniform distribution, analytical solution of propagation velocity can be obtained based on our model. Model verifications are performed on the data from several widely discussed popular topics in Sina Blog and the results show that our model is consistent with the actual propagations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOnline Communities and Social Computing - Third International Conference, OCSC 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, Proceedings
Pages401-410
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event3rd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2009. Held as Part of HCI International 2009 - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: 19 Jul 200924 Jul 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5621 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2009. Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period19/07/0924/07/09

Keywords

  • Blogosphere
  • Fitness
  • Power-law decay
  • Propagation modeling
  • SI model

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