Groups make nodes powerful: Identifying influential nodes in social networks based on social conformity theory and community features

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Highlights:

• The goal is to identify a set of nodes with the strong propagation ability.

• Measuring the attractive power with neighbors based on the theory of conformity.

• Measuring the initiating power based on community size and node location.

• Providing a node selection strategy from the view of individual and group.

• The results show that the enormous energy from the groups makes the node powerful.

摘要

•The goal is to identify a set of nodes with the strong propagation ability.•Measuring the attractive power with neighbors based on the theory of conformity.•Measuring the initiating power based on community size and node location.•Providing a node selection strategy from the view of individual and group.•The results show that the enormous energy from the groups makes the node powerful.

论文关键词:Attractive power,Initiating power,Community feature,Community tightness,Conformity,Node selection strategy

论文评审过程:Received 11 November 2018, Revised 2 February 2019, Accepted 3 February 2019, Available online 4 February 2019, Version of Record 11 February 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.02.007