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Efficient link prediction in continuous-time dynamic networks is a challenging problem that has attracted much research attention in recent years. A widely used approach to dynamic network link prediction is to extract the local structure…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Ruizhi Zhang , Wei Wei , Qiming Yang , Zhenyu Shi , Xiangnan Feng , Zhiming Zheng

Quantifying the structural and functional differences of temporal networks is a fundamental and challenging problem in the era of big data. This work proposes a temporal dissimilarity measure for temporal network comparison based on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Chuang Liu , Zhipeng Wang , Huijuang Wang , Petter Holme , Zi-Ke Zhang

Understanding how information, diseases, or influence spread across networks is a fundamental challenge in complex systems. While network diameter has been extensively studied in static networks, its definition and behavior in temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zahra Farahi , Ali Kamandi , Ali Moeini

This paper aims at the problem of link pattern prediction in collections of objects connected by multiple relation types, where each type may play a distinct role. While common link analysis models are limited to single-type link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Sheng Gao , Ludovic Denoyer , Patrick Gallinari

Predicting links in sparse, continuously evolving networks is a central challenge in network science. Conventional heuristic methods and deep learning models, including Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), are typically designed for static graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Nafiseh Sadat Sajadi , Behnam Bahrak , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

In real-world complex networks, understanding the dynamics of their evolution has been of great interest to the scientific community. Predicting future links is an essential task of social network analysis as the addition or removal of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Link prediction is a common problem in network science that transects many disciplines. The goal is to forecast the appearance of new links or to find links missing in the network. Typical methods for link prediction use the topology of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Huda Nassar , Austin R. Benson , David F. Gleich

Temporal link prediction, aiming at predicting future interactions among entities based on historical interactions, is crucial for a series of real-world applications. Although previous methods have demonstrated the importance of relative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xiaodong Lu , Leilei Sun , Tongyu Zhu , Weifeng Lv

A temporal graph can be considered as a stream of links, each of which represents an interaction between two nodes at a certain time. On temporal graphs, link prediction is a common task, which aims to answer whether the query link is true…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Bingqing Liu , Xikun Huang

Much effort has been devoted to understand how temporal network features and the choice of the source node affect the prevalence of a diffusion process. In this work, we addressed the further question: node pairs with what kind of local and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-26 Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Alan Hanjalic , Huijuan Wang

Many real-world systems can be expressed in temporal networks with nodes playing far different roles in structure and function and edges representing the relationships between nodes. Identifying critical nodes can help us control the spread…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-07 En-Yu Yu , Yan Fu , Jun-Lin Zhou , Hong-Liang Sun , Duan-Bing Chen

With the development of temporal networks such as E-commerce networks and social networks, the issue of temporal link prediction has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The Temporal Link Prediction task of WSDM Cup 2022 expects…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Chongjian Yue , Lun Du , Qiang Fu , Wendong Bi , Hengyu Liu , Yu Gu , Di Yao

A social interaction (so-called higher-order event/interaction) can be regarded as the activation of the hyperlink among the corresponding individuals. Social interactions can be, thus, represented as higher-order temporal networks, that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-17 Mathieu Jung-Muller , Alberto Ceria , Huijuan Wang

Link prediction in complex networks--identifying the missing or future connections--remains a cornerstone problem for understanding network evolution and function, yet existing methods struggle to balance computational efficiency with…

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In a wide range of complex networks, the links between the nodes are temporal and may sporadically appear and disappear. This temporality is fundamental to analyze the formation of paths within such networks. Moreover, the presence of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-20 Shahriar Etemadi Tajbakhsh , Justin P. Coon , David E. Simmons

The performance of mobile ad hoc networks in general and that of the routing algorithm, in particular, can be heavily affected by the intrinsic dynamic nature of the underlying topology. In this paper, we build a new analytical/numerical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Arta Cika , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

Smartphones have become extremely popular by launching wide ubiquitous networks. Nowadays studying of DTN Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) and Opportunistic Networks where formed over these mobile nodes, is one of the interesting topics in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Karim Keramat Jahromi

Modelling temporal networks for dynamic link prediction of new nodes has many real-world applications, such as providing relevant item recommendations to new customers in recommender systems and suggesting appropriate posts to new users on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Xiaobo Zhu , Yan Wu , Qinhu Zhang , Zhanheng Chen , Ying He

Temporal social networks of human interactions are preponderant in understanding the fundamental patterns of human behavior. In these networks, interactions occur locally between individuals (i.e., nodes) who connect with each other at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-11 Shaunette T. Ferguson , Teruyoshi Kobayashi

Performance of data forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) benefits considerably if one can make use of human mobility in terms of social structures. However, it is difficult and time-consuming to calculate the centrality and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-30 Peiyan Yuan , Huadong Ma , Shaojie Tang