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Birds of a feather: Homophily in social networks (McPherson et al. 2001)
Effects of user similarity in social media (Anderson et al. 2012)
Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the orkut social network (Spertus et al. 2005)
Finding similar users in facebook (De Meo et al. 2011)
Link prediction approach to collaborative filtering (Huang et al. 2005)
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Akcora, C.G., Ferrari, E. (2014). Similarity Metrics on Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_252
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