Document Type : Methodologies
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Department of Computer Engineering, Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Analyzing the influence of people and nodes in social networks has attracted a lot of attention. Social networks gain meaning, despite the groups, associations, and people interested in a specific issue or topic, and people demonstrate their theoretical and practical tendencies in such places. Influential nodes are often identified based on the information related to the social network structure and less attention is paid to the information spread by the social network user. The present study aims to assess the structural information in the network to identify influential users in addition to using their information in the social network. To this aim, the user’s feelings were extracted. Then, an emotional or affective score was assigned to each user based on an emotional dictionary and his/her weight in the network was determined utilizing centrality criteria. Here, the Twitter network was applied. Thus, the structure of the social network was defined and its graph was drawn after collecting and processing the data. Then, the analysis capability of the network and existing data was extracted and identified based on the algorithm proposed by users and influential nodes. Based on the results, the nodes identified by the proposed algorithm are considered high-quality and the speed of information simulated is higher than other existing algorithms.
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