Chronoweb: An open-source platform for analyzing temporal information diffusion on the web

Abstract

Analyzing information diffusion on temporal networks provides invaluable insights into how information spreads throughout a network over time, such as cryptocurrency money flow and virus propagation. Chronoweb is an open-source web information system that analyzes temporal information diffusion. The proposed system embraces existing analytical approaches with a unified RESTful web service. The paper presents the system architecture and its architectural decisions to resolve the challenges of embracing the state-of-the-art approaches: temporal graph traversals and incremental computation. We share the additional in-depth quantitative experiments to evaluate the decisions.

Keywords

• Chronoweb
• Temporal network
• Temporal graph
• Temporal information diffusion
• ChronoGraph
• Graph database