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Temporal Link Prediction in Social Networks Based on Agent Behavior Synchrony and a Cognitive Mechanism
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IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Volume 12, issue 5, pp. 3289-3300
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Temporality, a crucial characteristic in the formation of social relationships, was used to quantify the long-term time effects of networks for link prediction models, ignoring the heterogeneity of time effects on different time scales. In this work, we propose a novel approach to link prediction in temporal networks, extending existing methods with a cognitive mechanism that captures the dynamics of the interactions. Our approach computes the weight of the edges and their change over time, similar to memory traces in the human brain, by simulating the process of forgetting and strengthening connections depending on the intensity of interactions. We utilized five ground-truth datasets, which were used to predict social ties, missing events, and potential links.We found: 1) the cognitive mechanism enables more accurate capture of the heterogeneity of the temporal effect, leading to an average precision improvement of 9% compared to baselines with competitive area under curve (AUC); 2) the local structure and synchronous agent behavior contribute differently to different types of datasets; and 3) appropriately increasing the time intervals, which may reduce the negative impact from noise when dividing time windows to calculate the behavioral synchrony of agents, is effective for link prediction tasks.
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Duan, Y, Nurek, M, Guan, Q, Michalski, R & Holme, P 2025, 'Temporal Link Prediction in Social Networks Based on Agent Behavior Synchrony and a Cognitive Mechanism', IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 3289-3300. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2025.3547120