A. Hashemi; M. A. Zare Chahooki
Abstract
Social networks are valuable sources for marketers. Marketers can publish campaigns to reach target audiences according to their interest. Although Telegram was primarily designed as an instant messenger, it is used as a social network in Iran due to censorship of Facebook, Twitter, etc. Telegram neither ...
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Social networks are valuable sources for marketers. Marketers can publish campaigns to reach target audiences according to their interest. Although Telegram was primarily designed as an instant messenger, it is used as a social network in Iran due to censorship of Facebook, Twitter, etc. Telegram neither provides a marketing platform nor the possibility to search among groups. It is difficult for marketers to find target audience groups in Telegram, hence we developed a system to fill the gap. Marketers use our system to find target audience groups by keyword search. Our system has to search and rank groups as relevant as possible to the search query. This paper proposes a method called GroupRank to improve the ranking of group searching. GroupRank elicits associative connections among groups based on membership records they have in common. After detailed analysis, five-group quality factors have been introduced and used in the ranking. Our proposed method combines TF-IDF scoring with group quality scores and associative connections among groups. Experimental results show improvement in many different queries.
H. Rahmani; H. Kamali; H. Shah-Hosseini
Abstract
Nowadays, a significant amount of studies are devoted to discovering important nodes in graph data. Social networks as graph data have attracted a lot of attention. There are various purposes for discovering the important nodes in social networks such as finding the leaders in them, i.e. the users who ...
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Nowadays, a significant amount of studies are devoted to discovering important nodes in graph data. Social networks as graph data have attracted a lot of attention. There are various purposes for discovering the important nodes in social networks such as finding the leaders in them, i.e. the users who play an important role in promoting advertising, etc. Different criteria have been proposed in discovering important nodes in graph data. Measuring a node’s importance by a single criterion may be inefficient due to the variety of graph structures. Recently, a combination of criteria has been used in the discovery of important nodes. In this paper, we propose a system for the Discovery of Important Nodes in social networks using Genetic Algorithms (DINGA). In our proposed system, important nodes in social networks are discovered by employing a combination of eight informative criteria and their intelligent weighting. We compare our results with a manually weighted method, that uses random weightings for each criterion, in four real networks. Our method shows an average of 22% improvement in the accuracy of important nodes discovery.
D. Data
M. Zarezade; E. Nourani; Asgarali Bouyer
Abstract
Community structure is vital to discover the important structures and potential property of complex networks. In recent years, the increasing quality of local community detection approaches has become a hot spot in the study of complex network due to the advantages of linear time complexity and applicable ...
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Community structure is vital to discover the important structures and potential property of complex networks. In recent years, the increasing quality of local community detection approaches has become a hot spot in the study of complex network due to the advantages of linear time complexity and applicable for large-scale networks. However, there are many shortcomings in these methods such as instability, low accuracy, randomness, etc. The G-CN algorithm is one of local methods that uses the same label propagation as the LPA method, but unlike the LPA, only the labels of boundary nodes are updated at each iteration that reduces its execution time. However, it has resolution limit and low accuracy problem. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes an improved community detection method called SD-GCN which uses a hybrid node scoring and synchronous label updating of boundary nodes, along with disabling random label updating in initial updates. In the first phase, it updates the label of boundary nodes in a synchronous manner using the obtained score based on degree centrality and common neighbor measures. In addition, we defined a new method for merging communities in second phase which is faster than modularity-based methods. Extensive set of experiments are conducted to evaluate performance of the SD-GCN on small and large-scale real-world networks and artificial networks. These experiments verify significant improvement in the accuracy and stability of community detection approaches in parallel with shorter execution time in a linear time complexity.
H.3. Artificial Intelligence
S. Roohollahi; A. Khatibi Bardsiri; F. Keynia
Abstract
Social networks are streaming, diverse and include a wide range of edges so that continuously evolves over time and formed by the activities among users (such as tweets, emails, etc.), where each activity among its users, adds an edge to the network graph. Despite their popularities, the dynamicity and ...
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Social networks are streaming, diverse and include a wide range of edges so that continuously evolves over time and formed by the activities among users (such as tweets, emails, etc.), where each activity among its users, adds an edge to the network graph. Despite their popularities, the dynamicity and large size of most social networks make it difficult or impossible to study the entire network. This paper proposes a sampling algorithm that equipped with an evaluator unit for analyzing the edges and a set of simple fixed structure learning automata. Evaluator unit evaluates each edge and then decides whether edge and corresponding node should be added to the sample set. In The proposed algorithm, each main activity graph node is equipped with a simple learning automaton. The proposed algorithm is compared with the best current sampling algorithm that was reported in the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (KS) and normalized L1 and L2 distances in real networks and synthetic networks presented as a sequence of edges. Experimental results show the superiority of the proposed algorithm.
