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Find Me If You Can: Aligning Users In Different Social Networks, Priyanka Kasbekar, Katerina Potika, Chris Pollett
Find Me If You Can: Aligning Users In Different Social Networks, Priyanka Kasbekar, Katerina Potika, Chris Pollett
Faculty Publications, Computer Science
Online Social Networks allow users to share experiences with friends and relatives, make announcements, find news and jobs, and more. Several have user bases that number in the hundred of millions and even billions. Very often many users belong to multiple social networks at the same time under possibly different user names. Identifying a user from one social network on another social network gives information about a user's behavior on each platform, which in turn can help companies perform graph mining tasks, such as community detection and link prediction. The process of identifying or aligning users in multiple networks is …