Top persuaders in a social network are social entities whose adoption of a product or service will result in the largest numbers of other entities in the network to adopt the same product or service. Predicting top persuaders is critical to an expanding array of important social network-centric...

Link recommendation has attracted significant attentions from both industry practitioners and academic researchers. In industry, link recommendation has become a standard and most important feature in online social networks, prominent examples of which include “People You May Know” on...

Link recommendation, which suggests links to connect currently unlinked users, is a key functionality offered by major online social networks. Salient examples of link recommendation include “People You May Know” on Facebook and LinkedIn as well as “You May Know” on Google . The main...