Finding Critical Users in Social Communities: The Collapsed Core and Truss Problems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering(2020)
摘要
In social networks, the leave of critical users may significantly break network engagement, i.e., lead a large number of other users to drop out. A popular model to measure social network engagement is
$k$ k
-core, the maximal subgraph in which every vertex has at least
$k$ k
neighbors. To identify critical users, we propose the collapsed
$k$ k
-core problem: given a graph
$G$ G
, a positive integer
$k$ k
and a budget
$b$ b
, we aim to find
$b$ b
vertices in
$G$ G
such that the deletion of the
$b$ b
vertices leads to the smallest
$k$ k
-core. We prove the problem is NP-hard and inapproximate. An efficient algorithm is proposed, which significantly reduces the number of candidate vertices. We also study the user leave towards the model of
$k$ k
-truss which further considers tie strength by conducting additional computation w.r.t.
$k$ k
-core. We prove the corresponding collapsed
$k$ k
-truss problem is also NP-hard and inapproximate. An efficient algorithm is proposed to solve the problem. The advantages and disadvantages of the two proposed models are experimentally compared. Comprehensive experiments on nine real-life social networks demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed methods.
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Social network services,Computational modeling,Heuristic algorithms,Complexity theory,Proteins,Prediction algorithms,Fans
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