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Conference Paper: Locating experts via online social networks

TitleLocating experts via online social networks
Authors
Xu, KXie, JLi, VOK
KeywordsAnalytical expressions
Information flows
Multi-step
Performance metrics
Random walk
Issue Date2010
PublisherIEEE. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1000104
Citation
The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, 23-27 May 2010. In Proceedings of the IEEE ICC, 2010, p. 1-5 How to Cite?
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2010.5502193
AbstractOnline social networking systems provide indirect access to a large number of people connected by multi-step chains of acquaintances, and plays an important role in the referrals for human information flow. In this paper, from a networking point of view, we study the problem of locating experts for relevant information via online social networks. We model the action of forwarding a question with random walk, adjusted by a node's awareness of the potential expertise of his immediate neighbours. Using the model we derive analytical expressions of the performance metrics of a referral session in terms of the nodes' awareness level of their neighbours and the percentage of nodes that may have answers to the posed question. We also utilize several real online social networks to study the modeled question-forwarding strategy, and find that the simulation results validate our analyses. ©2010 IEEE.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/126120
ISSN
0536-1486
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.861
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dc.description.abstractOnline social networking systems provide indirect access to a large number of people connected by multi-step chains of acquaintances, and plays an important role in the referrals for human information flow. In this paper, from a networking point of view, we study the problem of locating experts for relevant information via online social networks. We model the action of forwarding a question with random walk, adjusted by a node's awareness of the potential expertise of his immediate neighbours. Using the model we derive analytical expressions of the performance metrics of a referral session in terms of the nodes' awareness level of their neighbours and the percentage of nodes that may have answers to the posed question. We also utilize several real online social networks to study the modeled question-forwarding strategy, and find that the simulation results validate our analyses. ©2010 IEEE.en_HK
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dc.rights©2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.-
dc.subjectAnalytical expressions-
dc.subjectInformation flows-
dc.subjectMulti-step-
dc.subjectPerformance metrics-
dc.subjectRandom walk-
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