Title
Identifying the influential spreaders in multilayer interactions of online social networks.
Abstract
Online social networks (OSNs) portray a multi-layer of interactions through which users become a friend, information is propagated, ideas are shared, and interaction is constructed within an OSN. Identifying the most influential spreaders in a network is a significant step towards improving the use of existing resources to speed up the spread of information for application such as viral marketing or hindering the spread of information for application like virus blocking and rumor restraint. Users communications facilitated by OSNs could confront the temporal and spatial limitations of traditional communications in an exceptional way, thereby presenting new layers of social interactions, which coincides and collaborates with current interaction layers to redefine the multiplex OSN. In this paper, the effects of different topological network structure on influential spreaders identification are investigated. The results analysis concluded that improving the accuracy of influential spreaders identification in OSNs is not only by improving identification algorithms but also by developing a network topology that represents the information diffusion well. Moreover, in this paper a topological representation for an OSN is proposed which takes into accounts both multilayers interactions as well as overlaying links as weight. The measurement results are found to be more reliable when the identification algorithms are applied to proposed topological representation compared when these algorithms are applied to single layer representations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3233/JIFS-169112
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Online social networks,complex network,multilayer interaction,influential spreaders
Data mining,Viral marketing,Social network,Computer science,Rumor,Network topology,Artificial intelligence,Overlay,Machine learning,Speedup,Network structure
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
5
1064-1246
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.39
35
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammed Ali Al-Garadi11045.69
Kasturi Dewi Varathan2444.80
Sri Devi Ravana35511.19
Ejaz Ahmed494552.56
Victor Chang51202107.48