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Influential user detection is critical in supporting the human facilitator-based facilitation in the online forum. Traditional approaches to detect influential users in the online forum focus on the statistical activity information such as the number of posts. However, statistical activity information cannot fully reflect the influence that users bring to the online forum. In this paper, we propose to detect the influencers from the influence propagation perspective and focus on the influential maximization (IM) problem which aims at choosing a set of users that maximize the influence propagat...

With the development of the automated facilitation support for online forum, influential user detection becomes a critical issue for supporting human facilitator. Influential maximization (IM) aiming at choosing a set of users that maximize the influence propagation from the entire social network users is one of the key approaches to detect influential users in online social network. However, conventional IM algorithms cannot be applied to online forum because of the lack of existing social network. In addition, they neglect many real-world factors such as the characteristics of individual use...