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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining pp 1202–1210Cite as

Link Prediction: A Primer

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Synonyms

Edge prediction; Relationship extraction; Inferring social ties

Glossary

Adamic/Adar:

The Adamic/adar (Adamic and Adar 2003) metric is defined, \( AA\left(u,\kern0.5em v\right)={\sum}_{n\in \varGamma (u)\cap \varGamma \left(\mathrm{v}\right)}\frac{1}{\mathit{\log}\mid \varGamma (n)\mid } \), where n ∈ N, N = Γ(u) ∩ Γ(v) is the set of common neighbors of u and v

AUROC:

Area under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (Clauset et al. 2008)

Class Imbalance:

In the link prediction problem, the class imbalance refers to the inherent disproportion of links that can form to links that do form

Common Neighbors:

For two nodes, u and v, the set of their common neighbors is defined as N = Γ(ιι)Γ ∩ Γ(ν), and correspondingly the size of set N is |Γ(η) ∩ Γ(ν)|(Newman 2001)

Graph Distance:

The shortest path length between two given nodes u and v

Jaccard Coefficient:

Jaccard coefficient(Liben-Nowell and Kleinberg 2007) is a normalization of common neighbors’ metric, which is defined...

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

    Nitesh V. Chawla

  2. Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA), Notre Dame, IN, USA

    Nitesh V. Chawla

  3. Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Yang Yang

  4. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Yang Yang

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  2. University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

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Yang, Y., Chawla, N.V. (2018). Link Prediction: A Primer. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_365

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