Semantic Social Network Analysis Foresees Message Flows

Matteo Cristani, Claudio Tomazzoli, Francesco Olivieri

2016

Abstract

Social Network Analysis is employed widely as a means to compute the probability that a given message flows through a social network. This approach is mainly grounded upon the correct usage of three basic graph- theoretic measures: degree centrality, closeness centrality and betweeness centrality. We show that, in general, those indices are not adapt to foresee the flow of a given message, that depends upon indices based on the sharing of interests and the trust about depth in knowledge of a topic. We provide an extended model, that is a simplified version of a more general model already documented in the literature, the Semantic Social Network Analysis, and show that by means of this model it is possible to exceed the drawbacks of general indices discussed above.

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Cristani M., Tomazzoli C. and Olivieri F. (2016). Semantic Social Network Analysis Foresees Message Flows . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-172-4, pages 296-303. DOI: 10.5220/0005832902960303


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@conference{icaart16,
author={Matteo Cristani and Claudio Tomazzoli and Francesco Olivieri},
title={Semantic Social Network Analysis Foresees Message Flows},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2016},
pages={296-303},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005832902960303},
isbn={978-989-758-172-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Semantic Social Network Analysis Foresees Message Flows
SN - 978-989-758-172-4
AU - Cristani M.
AU - Tomazzoli C.
AU - Olivieri F.
PY - 2016
SP - 296
EP - 303
DO - 10.5220/0005832902960303