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    <pub:title><![CDATA[A Framework for Modeling Influence, Opinions and Structure in Social Media]]></pub:title>
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    <pub:abstract><![CDATA[The Blogosphere provides an interesting opportunity to study social 
interactions. Blogs provide a channel to express opinions, facts and 
thoughts. Through these pieces of information, also known as memes, 
bloggers influence each other and engage in conversations that ultimately 
lead to exchange of ideas and spread of information. We aim to characterize 
and model the Blogosphere to study the spread of influence, 
opinion formation and social interaction. Further, we propose 
a simple generative process that models 
creation and evolution of blogs. This model is an extension of 
existing preferential attachment and random surfer model. Using available 
samples of the Blogosphre (represented as a blog graph) and the proposed generative model, we hypothesize, compare and 
validate different approaches to modeling influence and opinion formation 
in social media. ]]></pub:abstract>
    <pub:edition><![CDATA[Doctoral Symposium]]></pub:edition>
    <pub:counter>1937</pub:counter>
    <pub:booktitle><![CDATA[22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007)]]></pub:booktitle>
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