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Influence Propagation in Social Networks: A Data Mining Perspective (2011)
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@MISC{Bonchi11influencepropagation,
author = {Francesco Bonchi},
title = {Influence Propagation in Social Networks: A Data Mining Perspective },
year = {2011}
}
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Abstract
With the success of online social networks and microblogs such as Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, the phenomenon of influence exerted by users of such platforms on other users, and how it propagates in the network, has recently attracted the interest of computer scientists, information technologists, and marketing specialists. One of the key problems in this area is the identification of influential users, by targeting whom certain desirable marketing outcomes can be achieved. In this article we take a data mining perspective and we discuss what (and how) can be learned from the available traces of past propagations. While doing this we provide a brief overview of some recent progresses in this area and discuss some open problems. By no means this article must be intended as an exhaustive survey: it is instead (admittedly) a rather biased and personal perspective of the author on the topic of influence propagation in social networks.
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social network data mining perspective influence propagation computer scientist certain desirable marketing outcome past propagation key problem influential user available trace personal perspective brief overview recent progress exhaustive survey open problem marketing specialist information technologist online social network
