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This paper suggests a new approach to the constructive definition of user influence levels in social networks—the so-called actional model. According to the approach, the influence level of a user is calculated on the basis of their actions taking into account the goals of a control subject (a Principal). An example illustrates how the actional model can be applied to find the influence level of users in a real social network on the assumption of available initial data.
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Original Russian Text © D.A. Gubanov, A.G. Chkhartishvili, 2014, published in Problemy Upravleniya, 2014, No. 4, pp. 20–25.
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Gubanov, D.A., Chkhartishvili, A.G. An actional model of user influence levels in a social network. Autom Remote Control 76, 1282–1290 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0005117915070139
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