Mining diversity on networks

  • Authors:
  • Lu Liu;Feida Zhu;Chen Chen;Xifeng Yan;Jiawei Han;Philip S. Yu;Shiqiang Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University;Singapore Management University;University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;University of California, Santa Barbara;University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;University of Illinois, Chicago;Tsinghua University

  • Venue:
  • DASFAA'10 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Despite the recent emergence of many large-scale networks in different application domains, an important measure that captures a participant’s diversity in the network has been largely neglected in previous studies. Namely, diversity characterizes how diverse a given node connects with its peers. In this paper, we give a comprehensive study of this concept. We first lay out two criteria that capture the semantic meaning of diversity, and then propose a compliant definition which is simple enough to embed the idea. An efficient top-k diversity ranking algorithm is developed for computation on dynamic networks. Experiments on both synthetic and real datasets give interesting results, where individual nodes identified with high diversities are intuitive.