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Will We Connect Again? Machine Learning for Link Prediction in Mobile Social Networks
Eleventh Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (2013)
  • Ole J Mengshoel, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Raj Desai, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Andrew Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Brian Tran, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract
In this paper we examine link prediction for two types of data sets with mobility data, namely call data records (from the MIT Reality Mining project) and location-based social networking data (from the companies Gowalla and Brightkite). These data sets contain location information, which we incorporate in the features used for prediction. We also examine different strategies for data cleaning, in particular thresholding based on the amount of social interaction. We investigate the machine learning algorithms Decision Tree, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine, and Logistic Regression. Generally, we find that our feature selection and filtering of the data sets have a major impact on the accuracy of link prediction, both for Reality Mining and Gowalla. Experimentally, the Decision Tree and Logistic Regression classifiers performed best.
Keywords
  • call data,
  • mobility,
  • location-based social networks,
  • link prediction,
  • supervised machine learning,
  • data cleaning
Publication Date
August, 2013
Publisher Statement
@inproceedings{mengshoel13will,
 author = {Mengshoel, O. J. and Desai, R. and Chen, A. and Tran, B.},
 title     = {Will We Connect Again? Machine Learning for Link Prediction in Mobile Social Networks}, 
 booktitle = {Proc. of Eleventh Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs},
 address = {Chicago, IL},
 month     = {August},
 year = {2013}
Citation Information
Ole J Mengshoel, Raj Desai, Andrew Chen and Brian Tran. "Will We Connect Again? Machine Learning for Link Prediction in Mobile Social Networks" Eleventh Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ole_mengshoel/48/