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Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (한국정보과학회)
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Determining Contents Power Users for Revitalizing Blog Networks

블로그 연결망 활성화를 위한 컨텐츠 파워 유저의 파악 방안

  • 임승환 (한양대학교 전자컴퓨터 통신공학과) ;
  • 김상욱 (한양대학교 전자컴퓨터 통신공학과) ;
  • 박선주 (연세대학교 경영대학) ;
  • 이준호 ((주) NHN)
  • Published : 2009.12.15
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Abstract

In a blog network, there are special users who induce other users to actively utilize blog services. In this paper, these users whose contents exhibit large influence over other bloggers are defined as 'Content Power Users' (CPUs). It is important to accurately determine who content power users are in a blog network in order to establish business policies that will stimulate usage of blog services. In this paper, we discuss a novel method of determining content power users. First, we propose a system of measuring the influence of content of each post owned by individual users. Then, by adjusting the measured values based on the time of exposure and adding them up, we calculate the power of influence for corresponding users. Finally, by applying the proposed method to actual blog networks and comparing the selected power users to those of a preexisting method, we analyze different methods of determining power users. The experimental results demonstrate that our method of determining power users reflects well dynamic changes in a blog network.

블로그 연결망 내에는 다른 사용자들이 블로그 서비스를 활발하게 이용하도록 유도하는 특별한 사용자들이 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 사용자들 가운데 블로그 내의 컨텐츠가 다른 사용자에게 큰 영향을 끼치는 사용자들을 컨텐츠 파워 유저라고 정의하고 이들을 파악하는 기법에 대하여 논의한다. 우선, 각 사용자가 소유하고 있는 각 게시글들의 컨텐츠 영향력을 계량화하는 방법을 제안하고, 이 값들의 합을 이용하여 해당 사용자의 컨텐츠 영향력을 계산하는 방법을 제안한다. 끝으로, 실제 블로그 연결망에서 제안하는 기법과 기존의 기법들을 이용하여 컨텐츠 파워 유저들을 파악하는 실험을 수행하고, 이 결과를 비교 및 분석한다.

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