Following the leaders

This conceptual paper focuses on understanding the characteristics and behaviors of leaders and followers in social networking communities. The study differentiates between four groups of actors: "Established Leaders", "Emergent Leaders", "Newbies", and ...

In a distributed system, an algorithm used to select a distinguished node or leader to coordinate some activity is known as a leader election algorithm. While traditional approaches to leader election, based upon node ID numbers, are of considerable ...

In recent years, with the development of Web2.0, opinion leaders on the Web go up onto the stage and lead the will of the people. Many time, government, private companies and even traditional news media need to understand the opinion leaders' ideas on ...