title: Exploiting Information Diffusion Feature for Link Prediction in Sina Weibo.
abstract: The rapid development of online social networks (e.g., Twitter and Facebook) has promoted research related to social networks in which link prediction is a key problem. Although numerous attempts have been made for link prediction based on network structure, node attribute and so on, few of the current studies have considered the impact of information diffusion on link creation and prediction. This paper mainly addresses Sina Weibo, which is the largest microblog platform with Chinese characteristics, and proposes the hypothesis that information diffusion influences link creation and verifies the hypothesis based on real data analysis. We also detect an important feature from the information diffusion process, which is used to promote link prediction performance. Finally, the experimental results on Sina Weibo dataset have demonstrated the effectiveness of our methods.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.|School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), Weihai, Shandong, China.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
authors.forename: Yongchao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
authors.forename: Zhiming
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), Weihai, Shandong, China.
authors.forename: Dianhui
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
authors.forename: Sheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020407:Internet
references.citation: Nature. 2008 May 1;453(7191):98-101
references.pmid: 18451861
references.citation: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jul 21;106(29):11878-83
references.pmid: 19570995