Presentation 2018-08-24
Analysis of Positive Feedback on Social Network Using Random Matrix Theory
Yusuke Sakumoto, Masaki Aida,
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Abstract(in English) The social media facilitates the communication among people, and promotes several group activities in the society. Today, the persons frequently send positive feedback (e.g., Like in Facebook) to their friends via social media. Such positive feedback should be an important factor to promote the group activity. In a social network, the feedback is caused from a cycle of the communication chain among people. Hence, we must model the communication chain to clarify the effect of the positive feedback on the group activity promotion. However, it is difficult to describe the communication chain with simple deterministic rules because of the complexity of its behavior. A stochastic model (e.g., random walk) is popular to describe the complex phenomenon. The random walk can be a candidate model of the communication chain on a social network, but there is the problem for setting the transition probability of random walks to be able to exactly reproduce the behavior of the communication chain on an actual social network. In this paper, avoiding this problem with the random matrix theory, we analyze the positive feedback on social networks with the random walk model. As the results, we show the following properties that do not depend on the accuracy for setting the transition probability of random walks: (a) the scale-free property and the number of persons does not affect the strength of the social positive feedback, (b) the strength of the social positive feedback weakens with increasing the average number of friends and decreasing the variance of relationship strength between persons.
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Keyword(in English) Social Media / SNS / Spectral Graph Theory / Laplacian Matrix / Random Matrix Theory
Paper # CQ2018-56
Date of Issue 2018-08-16 (CQ)

Conference Information
Committee CQ
Conference Date 2018/8/23(2days)
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Place (in English) Ritsumeikan Univ. Biwako-Kusatsu Campus (BKC)
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Topics (in English) IoT/M2M, Wireless Communication, QoS and QoE in Wireless Communication, Wireless Resource Allocation, Wireless Transmission Quality, Cross layer Technology, Ad-hoc Network, etc.
Chair Takanori Hayashi(Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC) / Jun Okamoto(NTT)
Secretary Hideyuki Shimonishi(NTT) / Jun Okamoto(Nippon Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant Chikara Sasaki(KDDI Research) / Yoshiaki Nishikawa(NEC) / Ryo Yamamoto(UEC)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Communication Quality
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Analysis of Positive Feedback on Social Network Using Random Matrix Theory
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Social Media
Keyword(2) SNS
Keyword(3) Spectral Graph Theory
Keyword(4) Laplacian Matrix
Keyword(5) Random Matrix Theory
1st Author's Name Yusuke Sakumoto
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan University(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Masaki Aida
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan University(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
Date 2018-08-24
Paper # CQ2018-56
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) CQ-192
Page pp.pp.59-64(CQ),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-08-16 (CQ)