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A Social Diffusion Model with an Application on Election Simulation
Joint Authors
Lou, Jing-Kai
Wang, Fu-Min
Tsai, Chin-Hua
Hung, San-Chuan
Kung, Perng-Hwa
Lin, Shou-De
Chen, Kuan-Ta
Lei, Chin-Laung
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-06-05
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Medicine
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Issues about opinion diffusion have been studied for decades.
It has so far no empirical approach to model the interflow and formation of crowd’s opinion in elections due to two reasons.
First, unlike the spread of information or flu, individuals have their intrinsic attitudes to election candidates in advance.
Second, opinions are generally simply assumed as single values in most diffusion models.
However, in this case, an opinion should represent preference toward multiple candidates.
Previously done models thus may not intuitively interpret such scenario.
This work is to design a diffusion model which is capable of managing the aforementioned scenario.
To demonstrate the usefulness of our model, we simulate the diffusion on the network built based on a publicly available bibliography dataset.
We compare the proposed model with other well-known models such as independent cascade.
It turns out that our model consistently outperforms other models.
We additionally investigate electoral issues with our model simulator.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Lou, Jing-Kai& Wang, Fu-Min& Tsai, Chin-Hua& Hung, San-Chuan& Kung, Perng-Hwa& Lin, Shou-De…[et al.]. 2014. A Social Diffusion Model with an Application on Election Simulation. The Scientific World Journal،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1048621
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Lou, Jing-Kai…[et al.]. A Social Diffusion Model with an Application on Election Simulation. The Scientific World Journal No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1048621
American Medical Association (AMA)
Lou, Jing-Kai& Wang, Fu-Min& Tsai, Chin-Hua& Hung, San-Chuan& Kung, Perng-Hwa& Lin, Shou-De…[et al.]. A Social Diffusion Model with an Application on Election Simulation. The Scientific World Journal. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1048621
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1048621