Link prediction based on time-varied weight in co-authorship network

Social networks are very dynamic objects, since new edges and vertices are added to the graph over the time. Link prediction is an important task in social network analysis and is useful in many application domains. In the recent years, there is significant interest in methods that represent the social network in the form of a graph and leverage topological and semantic measures of similarity between two nodes to make predictions. In this article, we propose a hybrid approach utilizing time-varied weight information of links. We focus on the problem of link prediction particularly in the context of evolving co-authorship. Experiments have shown that the link prediction algorithm based on time-varied weight can reach better result.