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Human-Centric Cyber Social Computing Model for Hot-Event Detection and Propagation
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Microblogging networks have gained popularity in recent years as a platform enabling expressions of human emotions, through which users can conveniently produce contents on public events, breaking news, and/or products. Subsequently, microblogging networks generate massive amounts of data that carry opinions and mass sentiment on various topics. Herein, microblogging is regarded as a useful platform for detecting and propagating new hot events. It is also a useful channel for identifying high-quality posts, popular topics, key interests, and high-influence users. The existence of noisy data in the traditional social media data streams enforces to focus on human-centric computing. This paper proposes a human-centric social computing (HCSC) model for hot-event detection and propagation in microblogging networks. In the proposed HCSC model, all posts and users are preprocessed through hypertext induced topic search (HITS) for determining high-quality subsets of the users, topics, and posts. Then, a latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA)-based multiprototype user topic detection method is used for identifying users with high influence in the network. Furthermore, an influence maximization is used for final determination of influential users based on the user subsets. Finally, the users mined by influence maximization process are generated as the influential user sets for specific topics. Experimental results prove the superiority of our HCSC model against similar models of hot-event detection and information propagation
Transforming Graph Representations for Statistical Relational Learning
Relational data representations have become an increasingly important topic
due to the recent proliferation of network datasets (e.g., social, biological,
information networks) and a corresponding increase in the application of
statistical relational learning (SRL) algorithms to these domains. In this
article, we examine a range of representation issues for graph-based relational
data. Since the choice of relational data representation for the nodes, links,
and features can dramatically affect the capabilities of SRL algorithms, we
survey approaches and opportunities for relational representation
transformation designed to improve the performance of these algorithms. This
leads us to introduce an intuitive taxonomy for data representation
transformations in relational domains that incorporates link transformation and
node transformation as symmetric representation tasks. In particular, the
transformation tasks for both nodes and links include (i) predicting their
existence, (ii) predicting their label or type, (iii) estimating their weight
or importance, and (iv) systematically constructing their relevant features. We
motivate our taxonomy through detailed examples and use it to survey and
compare competing approaches for each of these tasks. We also discuss general
conditions for transforming links, nodes, and features. Finally, we highlight
challenges that remain to be addressed
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Assessing the probability of patients reoffending after discharge from low to medium secure forensic mental health services: An inductive prevention paradox
Citizens of developed societies are troubled by those who commit âirrational' crimes against the person. Reoffending by ex-patients following their release from secure mental health services triggers particularly intense angst when amplified by media and political scrutiny. Forensic mental health service providers are expected to minimise the occurrence of such transgressions by releasing only those patients who are judged acceptably unlikely to reoffend. However, reoffending probabilities can only be estimated by observing behaviour in secure institutional settings designed specifically to prevent patients from transgressing. The article explores this âinductive prevention paradox' which arises when the implementation of measures designed to avoid an adverse event obscures direct observation of what might have happened if prophylaxis had not been attempted. The analysis presented draws on data obtained in 1999â2003 from two qualitative studies in medium to low secure UK institutions, one providing forensic mental health services and the other forensic learning disability services. We explored the views of 56 staff members and 21 patients about risk management in forensic services and undertook additional 25 staff interviews for case studies of the 21 patients. The wider applicability of the inductive prevention paradox will be considered in the Discussion. We argue that the prognostic limitations arising from prevention have been underestimated by policy makers and in official inquiries; and that the prevailing personal risk assessment framework needs to be complemented by greater attention to the environments which patients will be discharged into
A Probabilistic Embedding Clustering Method for Urban Structure Detection
Urban structure detection is a basic task in urban geography. Clustering is a
core technology to detect the patterns of urban spatial structure, urban
functional region, and so on. In big data era, diverse urban sensing datasets
recording information like human behaviour and human social activity, suffer
from complexity in high dimension and high noise. And unfortunately, the
state-of-the-art clustering methods does not handle the problem with high
dimension and high noise issues concurrently. In this paper, a probabilistic
embedding clustering method is proposed. Firstly, we come up with a
Probabilistic Embedding Model (PEM) to find latent features from high
dimensional urban sensing data by learning via probabilistic model. By latent
features, we could catch essential features hidden in high dimensional data
known as patterns; with the probabilistic model, we can also reduce uncertainty
caused by high noise. Secondly, through tuning the parameters, our model could
discover two kinds of urban structure, the homophily and structural
equivalence, which means communities with intensive interaction or in the same
roles in urban structure. We evaluated the performance of our model by
conducting experiments on real-world data and experiments with real data in
Shanghai (China) proved that our method could discover two kinds of urban
structure, the homophily and structural equivalence, which means clustering
community with intensive interaction or under the same roles in urban space.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, ICSDM201
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