An opinion leader selection in social networks using hybrid amended salp swarm and improved grey wolf optimizer algorithms
摘要
The growth of Internet services and users has made cyberspace an indispensable aspect of human life, utilized to address a vast array of human issues. Opinion leaders (OLs) are Internet users, social network users, and web users with a broad range of activities and a significant impact. OL's influence on other users and the spread of their power have been hotly debated in recent years. Various techniques have been employed to identify these users and exploit their influence in multiple industries. This paper presents an approach to select OLs based on different topological network factors and examines user relationships, trust, and hybridization of the improved grey wolf optimizer (IGWO) and amended salp swarm optimization (ASSO). Additionally, local OLs are chosen using a novel hybrid clustering algorithm. According to formal social network analysis (SNA) parameters, the suggested algorithm yielded (83% and 73% F1, 99% and 98% precision, 72% and 58% recall, and 89% and 75% accuracy) scores for the Bitcoin Alpha and Bitcoin OTC datasets, respectively. The social network marketing (SNM) analysis results for the proposed algorithm on Bitcoin Alpha and Bitcoin OTC datasets are 19% and 32%, respectively, better than other algorithms.