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International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems

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Analysis of Opinion Leader in On-Line Communities

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In the 1940’s, Paul proposed the concept of “opinion leader”, and with the development of information technology and network, the importance of on-line community in information spread has become more and more greater. So the information analysis on Internet is becoming quite important. We construct the social network with the replying relations between comments mapped to the comment authors’ relations. Then we validate its characteristics of small world networks and find out the opinion leaders in on-line community.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, P.R. China

    Gao Junbo, Zhang Min, Jiang Fan & Wang Xufa

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Business, La Trobe University, 3086, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Rajiv Khosla

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, Moulsecoomb, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Junbo, G., Min, Z., Fan, J., Xufa, W. (2005). Analysis of Opinion Leader in On-Line Communities. In: Khosla, R., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3681. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11552413_164

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11552413_164

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-28894-7

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