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  1. Department of Information Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Nitin Agarwal & Debanjan Mahata

  2. Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Huan Liu

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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Agarwal, N., Mahata, D., Liu, H. (2014). Time- and Event-Driven Modeling of Blogger Influence. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_378

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