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W-entropy Index: The Impact of the Members on Social Networks

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Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM 2011)

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Who has the greatest impact/influence on social networks in China? Xu Xiaoming or Yao Chen? With the rapid growth of the social networks, it’s becoming more and more necessary to measure the impact of individuals in this field. Every social network has its ranking displaying who is the most popular person at the moment. However, this measurement is incomplete and one-dimensional. This paper applies the Shannon entropy theory to create a model for analyzing the impact of the individuals in the social networks. With the collected data from the social networks of SINA and Tencent, the results came out as expected: Yang Mi is with the greatest W-entropy index in SINA, 100 and Yao Chen is the second, 67.17.

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  1. TransLab, Department of Computer Science, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, DF, Brazil

    Weigang Li & Jianya Zheng

  2. Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, 305 Teer Engineering Bldg., Box 90271, Durham, NC, 27708-0271, USA

    Daniel LeZhi Li

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  1. Department of Computer and Inforamtion Science, University of Macau, Av. Padre Tomás Pereira, Taipa, Macau, China

    Zhiguo Gong

  2. School of Computer, Shanghai University, 200444, Shanghai, China

    Xiangfeng Luo

  3. College of Computer and Software, Taiyuan University of Technology, 030024, Taiyuan, China

    Junjie Chen

  4. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, 200090, Shanghai, China

    Jingsheng Lei

  5. Department of Business Administration, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, 18 Chui Ling Road, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, China

    Fu Lee Wang

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Li, W., Zheng, J., Li, D.L. (2011). W-entropy Index: The Impact of the Members on Social Networks. In: Gong, Z., Luo, X., Chen, J., Lei, J., Wang, F.L. (eds) Web Information Systems and Mining. WISM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6987. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23971-7_30

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