The link prediction problem for social networks
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Link prediction approach to collaborative filtering
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A data mining approach for location prediction in mobile environments
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Microscopic evolution of social networks
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Mining Frequent Trajectories of Moving Objects for Location Prediction
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Local Probabilistic Models for Link Prediction
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A Hybrid Prediction Model for Moving Objects
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WhereNext: a location predictor on trajectory pattern mining
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Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
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New perspectives and methods in link prediction
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Bridging the gap between physical location and online social networks
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Prediction of moving object location based on frequent trajectories
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Unveiling the complexity of human mobility by querying and mining massive trajectory data
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Predicting human contacts in mobile social networks using supervised learning
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Efficient distributed computation of human mobility aggregates through user mobility profiles
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From face-to-face gathering to social structure
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Predicting aggregate social activities using continuous-time stochastic process
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Discovering links among social networks
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Location affiliation networks: bonding social and spatial information
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Understanding the link between social and spatial distance in the crime world
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Exploiting homophily effect for trust prediction
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Online community detection in social sensing
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Using Location-Based Social Networks to Validate Human Mobility and Relationships Models
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Optimal Spatial Resolution for the Analysis of Human Mobility
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Predicting interactions in online social networks: an experiment in Second Life
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LCARS: a location-content-aware recommender system
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Using link semantics to recommend collaborations in academic social networks
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How do people link?: analysis of contact structures in human face-to-face proximity networks
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Acquaintance or partner?: predicting partnership in online and location-based social networks
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Link prediction in human mobility networks
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Human mobility and predictability enriched by social phenomena information
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
On the use of mobility data for discovery and description of social ties
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Location prediction in social media based on tie strength
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On the importance of temporal dynamics in modeling urban activity
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Transferring heterogeneous links across location-based social networks
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Understanding spatial homophily: the case of peer influence and social selection
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Our understanding of how individual mobility patterns shape and impact the social network is limited, but is essential for a deeper understanding of network dynamics and evolution. This question is largely unexplored, partly due to the difficulty in obtaining large-scale society-wide data that simultaneously capture the dynamical information on individual movements and social interactions. Here we address this challenge for the first time by tracking the trajectories and communication records of 6 Million mobile phone users. We find that the similarity between two individuals' movements strongly correlates with their proximity in the social network. We further investigate how the predictive power hidden in such correlations can be exploited to address a challenging problem: which new links will develop in a social network. We show that mobility measures alone yield surprising predictive power, comparable to traditional network-based measures. Furthermore, the prediction accuracy can be significantly improved by learning a supervised classifier based on combined mobility and network measures. We believe our findings on the interplay of mobility patterns and social ties offer new perspectives on not only link prediction but also network dynamics.