Abstract:A social role is a special position an individual possesses within a network, which indicates his or her behaviors, expectations, and responsibilities. Identifying roles of individuals in a social network has various direct applications, such as detecting influential members, trustworthy people, idea innovators, etc. Roles can also be used for further analyses of the network, e.g., community detection, temporal event prediction, and summarization. In this paper, we propose a structural social role mining frame… Show more
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