6Link Prediction
Social networks are a popular way to model interactions among people in a group or community. They can be visualized as graphs, where a vertex corresponds to a person in some group and an edge represents some form of association between the corresponding persons. Social networks are also very dynamic, because new edges and vertices are added to the graph over time. Understanding the dynamics that drive the evolution of a social network is a complex problem due to a large number of variable parameters.
However, a comparatively easier problem is to understand the association between two specific nodes. For instance, some of the interesting questions that can be posed are: How does the association ...
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