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Mining structural hole spanners through information diffusion in social networks
2013
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '13
The theory of structural holes [4] 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. In this work, we precisely define the problem of mining top-k
doi:10.1145/2488388.2488461
dblp:conf/www/LouT13
fatcat:dbxlgvixzjbjxfho4y54mjugoi