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The study of communication activity in social networks is aimed at understanding and promoting communications in groups, organizations and communities. In this paper, we propose a method for the analysis of communication records to extract content-based network activity, with a focus on first-use. Links between people in a social network are defined based on content and temporal relation of messages sent and received. We introduce the notion of first-use, first-use paths, and classes of users based on first-usage. First-use is defined with respect to a specific time period and specific communication content. It refers to the sending of messages containing the specified contents for the first time before being receiving them from any other user in the specified time period. First-use paths are defined as sequences of first-use events in communication networks, and m-ary classes of users are defined recursively as users who receive for the first time from (m-1)-ary users. We present an example of application of the analysis to the email records of a large company.
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Itaya, S. et al. (2010). First-Use Analysis of Communication in a Social Network. In: Bolc, L., Makowski, M., Wierzbicki, A. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6430. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16567-2_6
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