Journal on Communications ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 1-8.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2015094

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Based on improved malthusian model microblogging topic trend forecast

Yan-xiang HE1,2,Jian-bo LIU1,2,Nan LIU3,Min PENG1,2,Qiang CHEN1,2,Jing HE4   

  1. 1 Computer School,Wuhan University,Wuhan 430072,China
    2 State Key Lab of Software Engineering,Wuhan University,Wuhan 430072,China
    3 Department of Quartermaster,Military Economic Academy,Wuhan 430035,China
    4 Kennesaw State University,USA 30144
  • Online:2015-04-25 Published:2015-04-15
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China;Key Technologies R&D Program of Wuhan

Abstract:

Although trend forecasting problem is the research focus of social computing,yet the topic trend forecast of micro logging platform is still at the exploratory stage.Based on the analyzing,extracting and defining the influencing factors of the trends of event,the improved Malthus model,which is more applicable to solve microblogging topic trend forecast problem is presented.Then the model is mapped to the neural network,and the genetic algorithms are used to predict the trend of events.Experiments show that this method can predict the trend of long-term events in the social network with good results,and can predict the outbreak point and posting volume effectively.It is worth nothing that the method is also suitable for small sample forecasting problems.

Key words: social computing, trend forecasting, neural network, malthus model, social networks

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