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Predicting the occurrence of links is a fundamental problem in networks. In the link prediction problem we are given a snapshot of a network and would like to infer which interactions among existing members are likely to occur in the near…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-11-19 L. Backstrom , J. Leskovec

Temporal networks have gained significant prominence in the past decade for modelling dynamic interactions within complex systems. A key challenge in this domain is Temporal Link Prediction (TLP), which aims to forecast future connections…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiafeng Xiong , Ahmad Zareie , Rizos Sakellariou

The past decade has seen tremendous growth in the field of Complex Social Networks. Several network generation models have been extensively studied to develop an understanding of how real world networks evolve over time. Two important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Muhammad Qasim Pasta , Faraz Zaidi

Dynamic graphs serve as a generic abstraction and description of the evolutionary behaviors of various complex systems (e.g., social networks and communication networks). Temporal link prediction (TLP) is a classic yet challenging inference…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Meng Qin , Dit-Yan Yeung

Recently, link prediction has attracted more attentions from various disciplines such as computer science, bioinformatics and economics. In this problem, unknown links between nodes are discovered based on numerous information such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Mohammad Mehdi Keikha , Maseud Rahgozar , Masoud Asadpour

Many networks are complex dynamical systems, where both attributes of nodes and topology of the network (link structure) can change with time. We propose a model of co-evolving networks where both node at- tributes and network structure…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Yoon-Sik Cho , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

While links in simple networks describe pairwise interactions between nodes, it is necessary to incorporate hypernetworks for modeling complex systems with arbitrary-sized interactions. In this study, we focus on the hyperlink prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Liming Pan , Hui-Juan Shang , Peiyan Li , Haixing Dai , Wei Wang , Lixin Tian

The problem of link prediction, predicting if two nodes in a network have a connection between them, is a theoretical problem with numerous field-agnostic real-world applications. This paper investigates the efficacy of three classes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Vivian Feng

We study the evolution of networks when the creation and decay of links are based on the position of nodes in the network measured by their centrality. We show that the same network dynamics arises under various centrality measures, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Michael D. Koenig , Claudio J. Tessone

The characterization of the "most connected" nodes in static or slowly evolving complex networks has helped in understanding and predicting the behavior of social, biological, and technological networked systems, including their robustness…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-21 Scott A. Hill , Dan Braha

We present a new model of the evolutionary dynamics and the growth of on-line social networks. The model emulates people's strategies for acquiring information in social networks, emphasising the local subjective view of an individual and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Emanuele Massaro , Henrik Olsson , Andrea Guazzini , Franco Bagnoli

We present a physics-inspired method for inferring dynamic rankings in directed temporal networks - networks in which each directed and timestamped edge reflects the outcome and timing of a pairwise interaction. The inferred ranking of each…

Link prediction is pervasively employed to uncover the missing links in the snapshots of real-world networks, which are usually obtained from kinds of sampling methods. Contrarily, in the previous literature, in order to evaluate the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Jichang Zhao , Xu Feng , Li Dong , Xiao Liang , Ke Xu

With an increasing amount of observations on the dynamics of many complex systems, it is required to reveal the underlying mechanisms behind these complex dynamics, which is fundamentally important in many scientific fields such as climate,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-19 Zhendong Yu , Haiping Huang

Link prediction on dynamic networks has been extensively studied and widely applied in various applications. However, temporal unlink prediction, which also plays an important role in the evolution of social networks, has not been paid much…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Christina Muro , Boyu Li , Kun He

We study the evolution of networks through `triplets' - three-node graphlets. We develop a method to compute a transition matrix to describe the evolution of triplets in temporal networks. To identify the importance of higher-order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-02 Qing Yao , Bingsheng Chen , Kim Christensen , Tim S. Evans

Contagions such as the spread of popular news stories, or infectious diseases, propagate in cascades over dynamic networks with unobservable topologies. However, "social signals" such as product purchase time, or blog entry timestamps are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-21 Brian Baingana , Georgios B. Giannakis

Understanding the structures why links are formed is an important and prominent research topic. In this paper, we therefore consider the link prediction problem in face-to-face contact networks, and analyze the predictability of new and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Christoph Scholz , Martin Atzmueller , Gerd Stumme

Predicting missing links in real networks is an important problem in network science to which considerable efforts have been devoted, giving as a result a vast plethora of link prediction methods in the literature. In this work, we take a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-04 Guillermo García-Pérez , Roya Aliakbarisani , Abdorasoul Ghasemi , M. Ángeles Serrano

We study a general set of models of social network evolution and dynamics. The models consist of both a dynamics on the network and evolution of the network. Links are formed preferentially between 'similar' nodes, where the similarity is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 George C. M. A. Ehrhardt , Matteo Marsili , Fernando Vega-Redondo