Presentation 2016-07-16
Analysis and Prediction of Popularity Dynamics of User Generated Contents
Tatsuya Tanaka, Shingo Ata, Masayuki Murata,
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Abstract(in English) In recent years, social networking services such as YouTube, which share UGC (User Generated Contents) have become much attracted. An efficient control of UGC is one of important role to achieve an optimized placement of advertisements for end users, and/or content-aware caching control for improve the utilization of network resources. To this end, it is effective to forecast the future popularity of the content as early as possible, so that we can take a proactive action to highly popular contents. In this paper, we propose a method to classify time dependent variations of popularity (popularity patterns) of UGCs by using k-means clustering, and analyze tendencies led by popularity patterns. We then propose a method to identify UGCs which are expected to be popular in future, by taking both the initial part of popularity patterns and actual counts of downloads into consideration. Our experimental results show that the accuracy of identification of popular UGCs can be increased around 10% by considering the initial part of popularity patterns.
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Keyword(in English) YouTube / popularity prediction / view count transition pattern / k-means / Naive Bayes Classifier
Paper # IN2016-31
Date of Issue 2016-07-08 (IN)

Conference Information
Committee IN
Conference Date 2016/7/15(2days)
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Place (in English) Matsumaecho Sougo Center
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Topics (in English) Next Generation/New Generation/Future Network, Cloud/Data Center Network, SDN (Open Flow etc.), NFV, IPv6, Overlay Network, P2P, Content Distribution, Content Exchange, TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/2, Routing, Switching, Traffic Engineering, etc.
Chair Katsunori Yamaoka(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Takuji Kishida(NTT)
Secretary Takuji Kishida(KDDI R&D Labs.)
Assistant Kunitake Kaneko(Keio Univ.) / Takashi Natsume(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Information Networks
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Analysis and Prediction of Popularity Dynamics of User Generated Contents
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) YouTube
Keyword(2) popularity prediction
Keyword(3) view count transition pattern
Keyword(4) k-means
Keyword(5) Naive Bayes Classifier
1st Author's Name Tatsuya Tanaka
1st Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Shingo Ata
2nd Author's Affiliation Osaka City University(Osaka City Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Masayuki Murata
3rd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
Date 2016-07-16
Paper # IN2016-31
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) IN-137
Page pp.pp.49-54(IN),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-07-08 (IN)