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Web definition: A network consists of two or more nodes that are linked in order to share resources.
What is a Network?
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What is Social Network? Wikipedia Definition: Social Structure •Nodes: Social actors (individuals or organizations)•Links: Social relations
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Example 1: Friendship Network
• Nodes: all persons in the world• A link exists between two persons if they
know each other.
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Milgram (1967)The experiment:• Random people from Nebraska
were to send a letter (via intermediaries) to a stock broker in Boston.
• Could only send to someone with whom they know.
Six links were needed.Stanley Milgram (1933-1984)
Property of Friendship
• Six Degrees of Separation
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“The small world networkis a type of mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but most nodes can be reached from every other by a small number of hops or steps.”
Example 2: Coauthorship Network
• Nodes: all publication authors• A link exists between two authors if they are
coauthors in a publication.
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• Erdős number: is the collaboration distance with mathematician Paul Erdős.
What is your Erdős number?
Erdös number 0 --- 1 personErdös number 1 --- 504 peopleErdös number 2 --- 6593 peopleErdös number 3 --- 33605 peopleErdös number 4 --- 83642 peopleErdös number 5 --- 87760 peopleErdös number 6 --- 40014 peopleErdös number 7 --- 11591 peopleErdös number 8 --- 3146 peopleErdös number 9 --- 819 peopleErdös number 10 --- 244 peopleErdös number 11 --- 68 peopleErdös number 12 --- 23 peopleErdös number 13 --- 5 people
* Two persons are linked if they are coauthors of an article.
Coauthorship Network is a Small World Network
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Distribution in Dec.2010
• Nodes: all cities with an airport.• A link exists between two cities if there exists a
direct flight between them.
Example 3:Flight Map Is a Small World Network
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• Find a cheap ticket between two given cities.• It is a shortest path problem in a social network.• Need to add connection information to network.
Search Cheap Ticket
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There are about 28,537 commercial flights in the sky in the U.S. on any given day.
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Social Network is online in Internet
• Facebook: friendship• linkedIn: friendship• ResearchGate: coauthorship
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Online Social Networks (OSN)• Social influence occurs when one's emotions,
opinions, or behaviors are affected by others.• Although social influence is possible in the
workplace, universities, communities, it is most popular online.
Candidates (left to right) :Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick.
Political Election for Mayor of London
(2012)
Usage Example
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9239077/Twitter-data-predicts-Boris-Johnson-victory.html
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How to Predict?•Analysis posts on Facebook and Twitter: “Sentiment Analysis” .
Find 7% more positive sentiment towards Mr. Johnson than Mr. Livingstone.
Predict 54% of the vote for Mr. Johnson.
•Google Insights, tracking web trends, Almost five times more searches for “Boris Johnson”
than for “Ken Livingstone” via google.co.uk. Of the total number of web searches for both candidates,
60% were for “Boris Johnson”.
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Three Degrees of InfluenceIn Book Connected by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler.
Three Three Degrees of Influence
• The influence of actions ripples through networks 3 hops (to and from your friends’ friends’ friends).
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Community
• People in a same community share common interests in
- clothes, music, beliefs, movies, food, etc.
• Influence each other strongly.
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* same color, same community
Community without overlap Community with overlap
Community Structure
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• two nodes can reach each other in three steps.
• A few of tied key persons: C, D
• Member A reaches Member B via A-C-D-B
Community Structure
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In the same community,
Community Structure
• Two nodes can reach each other by at most six steps.
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For two overlapping communities,
A misinformation said that the president of Syria is dead, and it hit the twitter greatly and was circulated fast among the population, leading to a sharp, quick increase in the price of oil.http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/twitter-rumor-leads-sharp-increase-price-oil-173027289.html
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In August, 2012, thousands of people in Ghazni province left their houses in the middle of the night in panic after the rumor of earthquake.http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2012/08/20/quake-rumour-sends-thousands-ghazni-streets
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• People in a same community share common interests in - clothes, music, beliefs, movies, food, etc.
• Influence each other strongly.
Example
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1 is a rumor, 6 is a protector.
Step 1: 1--2,3; 6--2,4. 2 and 4 are protected, 3 is infected.
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rumor
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Least Cost Rumor Blocking Problem (LCRB) Bridge ends:
form a vertex set;belong to neigborhood communities of rumor community;each can be reached from the rumors before others in its own
community.C0
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Red node is a rumor;Yellow nodes are bridge ends.
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Construct Rumor Forward Search Trees (RFST)
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Yellow nodes are bridge ends.
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