This paper intends to provide some insights of a scientific problem: how likely one’s interests can be inferred from his/her social connections – friends, friends’ friends,...
—Individuals in social networks are often organized under some hierarchy such as a command structure. In many cases, when this structure is unknown, there is a need to discover h...
In this paper, we study the problem of social relational inference using visual concepts which serve as indicators of actors’ social interactions. While social network analysis ...
It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...
In many real-world scenarios, it is nearly impossible to collect explicit social network data. In such cases, whole networks must be inferred from underlying observations. Here, w...