8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), San-Francisco, Costa Rica, 18 - 21 August 2016, pp.1321-1328
Social media usage has increased marginally in the last decade and it is still continuing to grow. Companies, data scientists, and researchers are trying to infer meaningful information from this vast amount of data. One of the most important target applications is to find influential people in these networks. This information can serve many purposes such as; user or content recommendation, viral marketing, and user modeling.