A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network

摘要: We present a novel problem of searching for ‘familiar strangers’ in social network. Familiar strangers are individuals who not directly connected but exhibit some similarity. The power-law nature networks determines that majority with small number fellow individuals, and similar can be largely unknown to each other. Moreover, the network have only local view network, which makes aggregating these familiar challenge. In this work, we formulate problem, show why it is significant address challenge, an approach innovatively employs identities competitive approaches. A blogger citation used showcase technical details empirical results related issues future work.