Empirical analysis of the user reputation and clustering property for user-object bipartite networks

Xiao-Lu Liu, Shu-Wei Jia () and Yan Gu
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Xiao-Lu Liu: Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China†School of Economics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
Shu-Wei Jia: #x2021;College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, P. R. China
Yan Gu: Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China†School of Economics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2019, vol. 30, issue 05, 1-13

Abstract: User reputation is of great significance for online rating systems which can be described by user-object bipartite networks, measuring the user ability of rating accurate assessments of various objects. The clustering coefficients have been widely investigated to analyze the local structural properties of complex networks, analyzing the diversity of user interest. In this paper, we empirically analyze the relation of user reputation and clustering property for the user-object bipartite networks. Grouping by user reputation, the results for the MovieLens dataset show that both the average clustering coefficient and the standard deviation of clustering coefficient decrease with the user reputation, which are different from the results that the average clustering coefficient and the standard deviation of clustering coefficient remain stable regardless of user reputation in the null model, suggesting that the user interest tends to be multiple and the diversity of the user interests is centralized for users with high reputation. Furthermore, we divide users into seven groups according to the user degree and investigate the heterogeneity of rating behavior patterns. The results show that the relation of user reputation and clustering coefficient is obvious for small degree users and weak for large degree users, reflecting an important connection between user degree and collective rating behavior patterns. This work provides a further understanding on the intrinsic association between user collective behaviors and user reputation.

Keywords: User-object bipartite networks; user reputation; clustering coefficient; collective behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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