Journal on Communications ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (12): 21-35.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436X.2020223

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Social network link prediction method based on subgraph evolution and improved ant colony optimization algorithm

Qiuyang GU1,2,3, Chunhua JU4, Gongxing WU4   

  1. 1 School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
    2 China Institute for Small and Medium Enterprises, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
    3 Business School, University of Nottingham Ningbo, Ningbo 315175, China
    4 School of Management Science &Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
  • Revised:2020-09-05 Online:2020-12-25 Published:2020-12-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(71571162);Zhejiang Social Science Planning Key Projects Fundation(20NDJC10Z);The Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(LQ20G010002)

Abstract:

Based on improved ant colony algorithm and subgraph evolution fusion, a new unsupervised social network link prediction method (SE-ACO) was proposed.First, the special subgraph was determined in the social network graph.Then the evolution of the subgraph was studied to predict the new links in the graph, and the special subgraph was located by the ant colony method.Finally, using different network topology environments and data sets to test the proposed method.Compared with other unsupervised social network prediction algorithms, the proposed SE-ACO method has the best evaluation results, shorter running time and the best effect on most data sets, which indicates that graph structure plays an important role in link prediction algorithm.

Key words: link prediction, ant colony optimization algorithm, social network, subgraph evolution

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