SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING COLLECTIVE INTEREST-BASED SOCIAL COMMUNITIES

摘要

Methods and arrangements for discerning collective interests among communities. A contemplated method includes accepting input comprising: a population of entities, a collection of objects and/or topics, connectivity information among the population of entities, and data relative to an expression of interest of each of the entities in the objects and/or topics; constructing a social network graph among the entities by representing the entities as nodes in the graph and connectivity between the entities as edges in the graph; associating, with each of the entities, the data relative to an expression of interest in the objects and/or topics; defining, relative to the social network graph, separate parameters for social connectivity and collective interests; defining a relative importance parameter for social connectivity and collective interests; defining an objective function based on the social connectivity parameter, the collective interests parameter, and the relative importance parameter; and discerning at least one collective interest-based social community via optimizing the objective function. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.