Parallel social influence model with Levy flight pattern introduced for large-graph mining on Weibo.com

Benbin Wu, Jing Yang*, Liang He

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With a suitable method to rank the user influence in micro-blogging service, we could get influential individuals to make information reach large populations. Here a novel parallel social influence model is proposed to face to these challenges. In this paper, we firstly propose impact factors named Social Network Centricity and Weibo Heat Trend, describe a general algorithm named ActionRank to calculate the user influence based on these factors and the user-weibo behavior graph. Secondly, we introduce the Levy flight pattern into ActionRank, for the random large distance jumping phenomenon and the power-law distribution of the retweet cascade hops on Weibo.com meet its requirement. Thirdly, the parallel ActionRank is proposed with the help of MapReduce for large-scale graphs. Experiment results demonstrate that ActionRank on Levy flight pattern outperforms other algorithms and show the consistency of parallel ActionRank on datasets with sizes ranging from 20M to 1100 M edges.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlgorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing - 13th International Conference, ICA3PP 2013, Proceedings
Pages102-111
Number of pages10
EditionPART 2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event13th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2013 - Vietri sul Mare, Italy
Duration: 18 Dec 201320 Dec 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume8286 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2013
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVietri sul Mare
Period18/12/1320/12/13

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