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Mining structural hole spanners through information diffusion in social networks
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The theory of structural holes suggests that individuals would benefit from filling the "holes" (called as structural hole spanners) between people or groups that are otherwise disconnected. A few empirical studies have verified that structural hole spanners play a key role in the information diffusion. However, there is still lack of a principled methodology to detect structural hole spanners from a given social network.
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- Lou, T., & Tang, J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
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- ACM
- Published
- 2013-05-13
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- 825-836
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- W122652761
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- 4
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- 17.33
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- conference paper
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- en
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