Abstract
Collective synchronous behavior is a pervasive phenomenon that has attracted many researchers' interests over past decades. It can be observed in many areas easily, including biology, chemistry, physics and social society. A series of interactive processes in-between individuals trigger the formation of collective behavior. Traditional data mining methods, however, mainly concentrate on the analysis of individual behavior but ignore the potential associations. Similarly, in sociology, many well-known models based on survey sampling are not suitable for the new emerging social media platform any more, where huge amounts of data are generated by users every day. It is necessary for researchers to develop effective approaches for sampling and modeling the collective behavior on social media. In this paper, we propose an innovative model that consists of multiple hidden Markov chains. By learning a group of time-series behavior data, our model can not only predict the synchronous state of a collective, but also measure the dependency property, namely reactive factor, of each individual. Preliminary experimental result shows that CoSync model has the power to distinguish behavior patterns of different persons.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2012 |
Pages | 945-952 |
Number of pages | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2012 |
Event | 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2012 - Brussels, Belgium Duration: 10 Dec 2012 → 10 Dec 2012 |
Conference
Conference | 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2012 |
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Country/Territory | Belgium |
City | Brussels |
Period | 10/12/12 → 10/12/12 |
Keywords
- Collective synchronous behavior
- Hidden Markov model
- Reactive factor
- Social media
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software