Discover opinion leader in online social network using firefly algorithm

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Highlights：

• Classify the opinion leader not only in the global community but in the local community also.

• A Meta heuristic approach has proposed to find the opinion leader.

• An improved and modified method is proposed for community identification in the social network.

• The overall complexity of both the proposed algorithm is lesser than previously other developed algorithm.

摘要

•Classify the opinion leader not only in the global community but in the local community also.•A Meta heuristic approach has proposed to find the opinion leader.•An improved and modified method is proposed for community identification in the social network.•The overall complexity of both the proposed algorithm is lesser than previously other developed algorithm.

论文关键词：Online social network,Opinion leader,Firefly algorithm,Community partitioning

论文评审过程：Received 11 June 2018, Revised 21 December 2018, Accepted 22 December 2018, Available online 23 December 2018, Version of Record 27 December 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.12.043