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Bridging offline and online social graph dynamics

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Manuel Gomez Rodriguez,

Monica RogatiAuthors Info & Claims

CIKM '12: Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2396761.2398663

Published: 29 October 2012 Publication History

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The online and offline worlds are converging. Location-based services, ubiquitous mobile devices and on-the-go social network accessibility are blurring the distinction between in-person activities and their virtual counterpart. An important effect of this convergence is the rapid and powerful impact of offline events (meetings, conferences) on the evolution and temporal dynamics of the online connectivity between members of social and professional networks. However, these effects have been largely unexplored.

We study these effects by using data from LinkedIn, a popular professional social networking site. We find that offline events may induce connectivity changes in the online network -- there is a dramatic increase in the number of connections between event attendees shortly after the date of the event. Building on these insights, we describe a non-supervised method that exploits connectivity changes temporally correlated to real world events to successfully infer more than 40% of specific event attendees. Finally, we revisit the link prediction problem by including user contributed information about off-line events to achieve higher link prediction performance.

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Bridging offline and online social graph dynamics
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CIKM '12: Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management

October 2012

2840 pages

ISBN:9781450311564

DOI:10.1145/2396761

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Xuewen Chen
Wayne State University, USA
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Program Chairs:
Guy Lebanon
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Haixun Wang
Microsoft Research Asia
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Mohammed J. Zaki
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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