Jialong Zhang¹, Meijuan Yin^2,*, Yang Pei², Fenlin Liu², Chenyu Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.1, pp. 2095-2115, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.065679 - 29 August 2025

Abstract Identifying influential users in social networks is of great significance in areas such as public opinion monitoring and commercial promotion. Existing identification methods based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often lead to yield inaccurate features of influential users due to neighborhood aggregation, and require a large substantial amount of labeled data for training, making them difficult and challenging to apply in practice. To address this issue, we propose a semi-supervised contrastive learning method for identifying influential users. First, the proposed method constructs positive and negative samples for contrastive learning based on multiple node centrality metrics… More >

Saqib Iqbal¹, Rehan Khan², Hikmat Ullah Khan^2,*, Fawaz Khaled Alarfaj⁴, Abdullah Mohammed Alomair³, Muzamil Ahmed²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 6479-6493, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030881 - 28 July 2022

Abstract The exchange of information is an innate and natural process that assist in content dispersal. Social networking sites emerge to enrich their users by providing the facility for sharing information and social interaction. The extensive adoption of social networking sites also resulted in user content generation. There are diverse research areas explored by the researchers to investigate the influence of social media on users and confirmed that social media sites have a significant impact on markets, politics and social life. Facebook is extensively used platform to share information, thoughts and opinions through posts and comments.… More >

Babar Shazad¹, Hikmat Ullah khan², Zahoor-ur-Rehman¹, Muhammad Farooq², Ahsan Mahmood¹, Irfan Mehmood^3,*, Seungmin Rho³, Yunyoung Nam^4,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.1, pp. 87-98, 2020, DOI:10.31209/2019.100000130

Abstract The social media has become an integral part of our daily life. The social web users interact and thus influence each other influence in many aspects. Blogging is one of the most important features of the social web. The bloggers share their views, opinions and ideas in the form of blog posts. The influential bloggers are the leading bloggers who influence the other bloggers in their online communities. The relevant literature presents several studies related to identification of top influential bloggers in last decade. The research domain of finding the top influential bloggers mainly focuses… More >