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Crafting Kinship Networks by Exploring Acquaintances Relationships

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In the modern knowledge society it is becoming increasingly important to maintain and promote social connections; among these, the kinship allows people to keep in touch with their relatives. In this paper we present a proposal for building and enhancing kinship networks by exploring acquaintances and friend relationships, showing the effectiveness and expandability of our approach.

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Carchiolo, V., Di Martino, V., Longheu, A., Malgeri, M., Mangioni, G. (2013). Crafting Kinship Networks by Exploring Acquaintances Relationships. In: Fortino, G., Badica, C., Malgeri, M., Unland, R. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing VI. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 446. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32524-3_23

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