A Comprehensive Survey of Link Prediction Techniques for Social Network

A growing trend of using social networking sites is attracting researchers to study and analyze differentaspects of social network. Besides many problems, link prediction is a fascinating problem in the field of socialnetwork analysis (SNA). Link prediction, in social network analysis, is a task of...

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Main Authors: Abdul Samad, Mamoona Qadir, Ishrat Nawaz, Muhammad Islam, Muhammad Aleem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) 2020-05-01
Series:EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
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Online Access:https://eudl.eu/pdf/10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.163988
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spelling doaj-e86e71c7acb24e27906180db31fd0dd42020-11-25T02:59:31ZengEuropean Alliance for Innovation (EAI)EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems2410-02182020-05-0172310.4108/eai.13-7-2018.163988A Comprehensive Survey of Link Prediction Techniques for Social NetworkAbdul Samad0Mamoona Qadir1Ishrat Nawaz2Muhammad Islam3Muhammad Aleem4Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad PakistanKhwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan PakistanThe Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur PakistanFAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad PakistanFAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad PakistanA growing trend of using social networking sites is attracting researchers to study and analyze differentaspects of social network. Besides many problems, link prediction is a fascinating problem in the field of socialnetwork analysis (SNA). Link prediction, in social network analysis, is a task of identifying the missing linksand predicting the new links. Several researchers have proposed solutions for the link prediction problemduring the past two decades. However, there is a need to provide comprehensive overview of the significantcontributions for a thorough analysis. The objective of this review is to summaries and discuss the existinglink prediction algorithms in a common context for an unbiased analysis. The extensive review is presentedby constructing the systematical category for proposed algorithms, selected problems, evaluation measuresalong with selected network datasets. Finally, applications of link prediction are discussed.https://eudl.eu/pdf/10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.163988link predictionsocial networksurvey
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author Abdul Samad
Mamoona Qadir
Ishrat Nawaz
Muhammad Islam
Muhammad Aleem
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Mamoona Qadir
Ishrat Nawaz
Muhammad Islam
Muhammad Aleem
A Comprehensive Survey of Link Prediction Techniques for Social Network
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
link prediction
social network
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author_facet Abdul Samad
Mamoona Qadir
Ishrat Nawaz
Muhammad Islam
Muhammad Aleem
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title A Comprehensive Survey of Link Prediction Techniques for Social Network
title_short A Comprehensive Survey of Link Prediction Techniques for Social Network
title_full A Comprehensive Survey of Link Prediction Techniques for Social Network
title_fullStr A Comprehensive Survey of Link Prediction Techniques for Social Network
title_full_unstemmed A Comprehensive Survey of Link Prediction Techniques for Social Network
title_sort comprehensive survey of link prediction techniques for social network
publisher European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)
series EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
issn 2410-0218
publishDate 2020-05-01
description A growing trend of using social networking sites is attracting researchers to study and analyze differentaspects of social network. Besides many problems, link prediction is a fascinating problem in the field of socialnetwork analysis (SNA). Link prediction, in social network analysis, is a task of identifying the missing linksand predicting the new links. Several researchers have proposed solutions for the link prediction problemduring the past two decades. However, there is a need to provide comprehensive overview of the significantcontributions for a thorough analysis. The objective of this review is to summaries and discuss the existinglink prediction algorithms in a common context for an unbiased analysis. The extensive review is presentedby constructing the systematical category for proposed algorithms, selected problems, evaluation measuresalong with selected network datasets. Finally, applications of link prediction are discussed.
topic link prediction
social network
survey
url https://eudl.eu/pdf/10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.163988
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