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Investigating selection behavior of new and old users in online emerging user-object networks

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In the present information era, due to the immense success of web 2.0 several online services are available. This has led to growth of both web users and varieties of online objects. In this paper, we propose a growth model for user-object bipartite network that investigate the selection behaviors of web users. In this model, both web user and object sets grow continuously but edges arise only from the user set. These edges are attached with a combination of preferential and random attachment mechanism. To validate our model, we consider eight distinct real-world user-object networks. Our results show good agreements between real data, model and simulation. We observe that selection behaviors of new and old users are different towards objects in different networks. Conversely, popular and unpopular objects are selected differently by these web users. We notice interesting temporal patterns in randomness of selection behaviors of new and old users in different networks.

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    ASONAM '17: Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017
    July 2017
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    ISBN:9781450349932
    DOI:10.1145/3110025
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