Potential link suggestion in scientific collaboration networks

Abstract

This works presents a methodology to suggest potential relationships among the elements in the scientific collaboration network. The proposed approach takes into account not only the structure of the relationships among the individuals that constitute the network, but also the content of the information flow propagated in it, modeled from the documents authored by those individuals. The methodology is applied it the accepted papers for the 2 nd Workshop on Complex Networks - Complenet'2010. The results show insights on the relationships, both existent and potential, among elements in the network. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.