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On-Line Communities Making Scense: A Hybrid Micro-Blogging Platform Community Analysis Framework

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Agent and Multi-Agent Systems. Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2012)

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The upsurge of Micro-blogging platform attracts enterprises to use it as a public relationship tool. It also act as a new form of news source, journalists can hunt for next upcoming breaking news. It is worth to identify communities from it and reveal social relationships among community members in a timely manner. However, traditional SNA approaches are insufficient to achieve the requirement in a reasonable time. In this paper, we proposed a hybrid framework to tackle the problem. It is designed to identify the community with real social relationships automatically, that withstand dynamically changing content, have the ability to process fast and live-streaming data and provide a self-feedback mechanism to refine the result without human interference. The benefit of this framework is that average users should be able to employ it and to really understand communities in micro-blogging platforms without any or limited domain knowledge.

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  1. Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, Centre for Intelligent Systems and Their Applications, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Cheng-Lin Yang & Yun-Heh Chen-Burger

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Gordan Jezic  & Mario Kusek  & 

  2. Institute of Informatics (I-32), Division of Knowledge Management Systems, Wroclaw University of Technology, Str. Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370, Wroclaw, Poland

    Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen

  3. KES International, Shoreham-by-sea, P.O. Box 2115, BN43 9AF, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus, 5095, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Yang, CL., Chen-Burger, YH. (2012). On-Line Communities Making Scense: A Hybrid Micro-Blogging Platform Community Analysis Framework. In: Jezic, G., Kusek, M., Nguyen, NT., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems. Technologies and Applications. KES-AMSTA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7327. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30947-2_17

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