Leaders and Negotiators: An Influence-based Metric for Rank

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 3

Volume

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2009): Third International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Poster Papers

We propose influence as a measure of the centrality of nodes in a network. Influence takes into account not only direct links but also all paths between nodes. We parametrize the influence metric by a variable alpha that measures the strength of links. Variations in rankings as alpha changes provides a mechanism to identify the central nodes within communities (leaders), as well as nodes that act as bridges between communities (negotiators).

10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.13998