Abstract: SummaryWe propose in this work a novel approach for dynamic social network analysis by combining an agent‐based model, an author‐topic model, and pretopology. We first introduce an analytical model for a dynamic social network associated with textual content using agent‐based and author‐topic models, namely, Textual‐ABM. The purpose of Textual‐ABM is to support for the concept exploitation of the “dynamics” of a social network, which contains not only network's structure transformation but also agent's interest variation over ti...
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Artificial intelligence