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Popularity Modeling for Mobile Apps: A Sequential Approach

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Hengshu Zhu *
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Chuanren Liu
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Yong Ge
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Hui Xiong
陈恩红 (Enhong Chen)
DOI:10.1109/TCYB.2014.2349954delete
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The popularity information in App stores, such as chart rankings, user ratings, and user reviews, provides an unprecedented opportunity to understand user experiences with mobile Apps, learn the process of adoption of mobile Apps, and thus enables better mobile App services. While the importance of popularity information is well recognized in the literature, the use of the popularity information for mobile App services is still fragmented and under-explored. To this end, in this paper, we propose a sequential approach based on hidden Markov model (HMM) for modeling the popularity information of mobile Apps toward mobile App services. Specifically, we first propose a popularity based HMM (PHMM) to model the sequences of the heterogeneous popularity observations of mobile Apps. Then, we introduce a bipartite based method to precluster the popularity observations. This can help to learn the parameters and initial values of the PHMM efficiently. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the PHMM is a general model and can be applicable for various mobile App services, such as trend based App recommendation, rating and review spam detection, and ranking fraud detection. Finally, we validate our approach on two realworld data sets collected from the Apple Appstore. Experimental results clearly validate both the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed popularity modeling approach.
Keywords:
App recommendation
hidden Markov models (HMMs)
mobile Apps
popularity modeling
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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics cover
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
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university of science & technology of china, cas
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rutgers university system
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chinese academy of sciences
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