Research Article
A Community Related Influence Evaluation Model for Social Networks with a Dynamic Perspective
| Symbol | Description |
| Entity influence | | degree of user influence | | degree of community influence |
| Average intention degree | | the average degree of an entity’s inherent intention of propagating information |
| Community-initiated influence | | the degree of influence of a community on internal users | | the degree of influence of a community on external users | | the degree of influence between communities |
| Factors in the calculations | | the information status for a user whether he/she receives it | | the information status for a user whether he/she propagates it | | the number of times a user receives information | | the times a user propagates information | | factor of community hybrid internal influence | | factor of community internal user number | | factor of community user relationship tightness | | the attenuation factor for dynamic rule |
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