Given a snapshot of a social network, can we infer which new interactions among its members are likely to occur in the near future? We formalize this question as the link prediction problem, and develop approaches to link prediction based on measures of the "proximity" of nodes in a network. Experiments on large co-authorship networks suggest that information about future interactions can be extracted from network topology alone, and that fairly subtle measures for detecting node proximity can outperform more direct measures. Algorithms
REF studied several node proximity measures for inferring new interactions among the members of a social networks.
The link prediction problem for social networks
CIKM '03
Computer Science