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Approach to Identification and Analysis of Information Sources in Social Networks

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Intelligent Distributed Computing XIII (IDC 2019)

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The paper investigates an approach for communicative leaders selection in social network. The hypothesis is that the analysis of these leaders is enough for social network community evaluation. The approach for the communicative leaders is proposed. Experiments with several groups in VKontakte network is performed and presented.

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The work is performed by the grant of RSF No. 18-71-10094 in SPIIRAS.

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Vitkova, L., Kolomeets, M. (2020). Approach to Identification and Analysis of Information Sources in Social Networks. In: Kotenko, I., Badica, C., Desnitsky, V., El Baz, D., Ivanovic, M. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XIII. IDC 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 868. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32258-8_34

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