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Modelling of information diffusion on social networks with applications to WeChat

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  • Liu, Liang
  • Qu, Bo
  • Chen, Bin
  • Hanjalic, Alan
  • Wang, Huijuan

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Traces of user activities recorded in online social networks open new possibilities to systematically understand the information diffusion process on social networks. From the online social network WeChat, we collected a large number of information cascade trees, each of which tells the spreading trajectory of a message/information such as which user creates the information and which users view or forward the information shared by which neighbours. In this work, we propose two heterogeneous non-linear models, one for the topologies of the information cascade trees and the other for the stochastic process of information diffusion on a social network. Both models are validated by the WeChat data in reproducing and explaining key features of cascade trees.

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  • Liu, Liang & Qu, Bo & Chen, Bin & Hanjalic, Alan & Wang, Huijuan, 2018. "Modelling of information diffusion on social networks with applications to WeChat," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 496(C), pages 318-329.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:496:y:2018:i:c:p:318-329
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2017.12.026
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