Abstract:
People play different roles in various social networks. Even in a single network, people may interact with others based on different roles, and there are various relation...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
People play different roles in various social networks. Even in a single network, people may interact with others based on different roles, and there are various relationships among them. However, current research usually treats all relationships homogeneously (i.e. friendship). In this paper, we try to identify different types of relationship (family, colleague, and social) within social networks. By analyzing a large-scale cellphone network, we gain insights about human mobility patterns. We design three metrics to capture colocation behaviors for cellphone users, taking spatial-temporal factors into consideration. These metrics show that users with different relationships demonstrate significantly different co-locating patterns. With these metrics as features, we adopt supervised approach to classify cellphone user pairs into different relationship categories. Comparing to using network and communication features, co-location metrics demonstrate better performance to fulfill the task of relationship identification.
Published in: 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2014)
Date of Conference: 17-20 August 2014
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 16 October 2014
Electronic ISBN:978-1-4799-5877-1