Journal on Communications ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (11): 12-22.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2014.11.002

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Identifying method for opinion leaders in social network based on competency model

Bo CHEN1,Xiang-yan TANG1,Ling YU2,Ya-shang LIU1   

  1. 1 School of Computer Science,Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing 210023,China
    2 Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for Numerical Simulation of Large Scale Complex Systems,Nanjing 210023,China
  • Online:2014-11-25 Published:2017-06-20
  • Supported by:
    The Major Program of the 12th Five Years Education Science Plans of Jiangsu Province (B-a/2013/01/013);The Program of the 12th Five Years Education Science Plans of Jiangsu Province

Abstract:

A competency model of opinion leaders in social networks is presented,which includes three capacity factors,some explicit and implicit behavioral indicators.These characteristics of information production,information dissemination and information influence which opinion leaders should have.Based on the proposed competency model,social network users into four categories which divided:the general public,the activists,the topic opinion leaders and network opinion leaders.Then a hierarchical filtering process is designed and a system framework of filtering experimental for identifying opinion leaders is introduced.It takes the data extracted from the Sina microblog as input,then integrates some social network analysis tools such as MALLET,and develops the programs for specific functions with Python.Eventually,the opinion leaders of microblog can be identified.The experiment results prove the effectiveness of present competency model for opinion leaders and the feasibility of hierarchical filtering process.

Key words: competency, opinion leaders, social network, social computing

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