Property Description and Comparison of BLOG Community at Different Scales
The characteristics of complex network are studied mostly at small-scale and large-scale, while there is still much to be done at mesoscale. Firstly, by using the comment data of a blog site, an undirected network is built. From the perspective of network topology, it is divided and defined into small-scale (micro-level), mesoscale (community structure) and large-scale (macro-level). According to the characteristics of users communication and the factors which influence network emergence, the comment network is described from the aspects of connectivity, diversity, and activity. Furthermore, some quantitative metrics are selected to analyze the network characteristics at each scale, including network structure entropy, degree distribution, richclub, and the association between clustering coefficient and degree. It is found that the statistics are similar between mesoscale and the other two scales, indicating that the large-scale and small-scale could be understood through the mesoscale.
Complex Network Blog Community Mesoscale Network Characteristics
Yu WU Liu-dong SUN Hong-tao LIU
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Chongqing, China Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China
国际会议
上海
英文
257-261
2011-03-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）