Mining implicit social network with context-aware technologies

Abstract

Given their growing importance with the fast advance of today's information technologies, social networks have been extensively studied. However, a majority of existing published literature in this area consider only the explicit form of social networks. We consider its complement -implicit social networks. We adapt the social distance model and influence model to a basic implicit social network scenario. We then extend the basic model by incorporating the concept of multiple network paradigms. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.