A Novel Link Prediction Approach on Social Networks
Subject Areas : electrical and computer engineering
S.
Rezavandi Shoaii
1
(University of Tehran)
H.
Zare
2
(University of Tehran)
Abstract :
Nowadays the network science has been attracted many researchers from a wide variety of different fields and many problems in engineering domains are modelled through social networks measures. One of the most important problems in social networks is the prediction of evolution and structural behavior of the networks that is known as link prediction problem in the related literature. Nowadays people use multiple and different social networks simultaneously and it causes to demonstrate a new domain of research known as heterogenous social networks. There exist a few works on link prediction problem on heterogenous networks. In this paper, first a novel similarity measure for users in heterogenous networks is defined. Then a novel link prediction algorithm is described through a supervised learning approach which is consisted by the generated features from the introduced similarity measures. We employ the standard evaluation criteria for verification of the proposed approach. The comparison of the proposed algorithm to the other well-known earlier works showed that our proposed method has better performance than the other methods based on testing on several network datasets.
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