Research Article

A Social Diffusion Model with an Application on Election Simulation

Table 3

Consider the result after rounds for each model, and compare it with the ground truth of year . The table shows the average of the similarity scores for 1997, 1998, and 1999.

ā€‰ Kendall's tau Top Jaccard coefficients
Round1234512345

Independent Cascade 0.0110.0110.0110.0110.0110.0130.0130.0130.0130.013
Linear Threshold0.1680.1680.1680.1680.1680.1920.1920.1920.1920.192
DiffusionRank0.1860.1860.1860.1860.1860.2170.2170.2170.2170.217
Proposed(0.00)0.2080.2090.2070.2060.2050.2380.2400.2370.2360.234
Proposed(0.25)0.2100.2090.2080.2070.2070.2410.2410.2400.2390.238
Proposed(0.50)0.2090.2100.2090.2090.2080.2400.2420.2420.2410.240
Proposed(0.75)0.2090.2090.2090.2090.2090.2390.2410.2420.2420.241
Proposed(1.00)0.1940.1940.1940.1940.1940.1790.1790.1790.1790.179