Reconstructing Randomized Social Networks

In social networks, nodes correspond to entities and edges to links between them. In most of the cases, nodes are also associated with a set of features. Noise, missing values or efforts to preserve privacy in the network may transform the original network G and its feature vectors F. This transformation can be modeled as a randomization method. Here, we address the problem of reconstructing the original network and set of features given their randomized counterparts G and F and knowledge of the randomization model. We identify the cases in which the original network G and feature vectors F can be reconstructed in polynomial time. Finally, we illustrate the efficacy of our methods using both generated and real datasets.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: SDM
• Authors: Niko Vuokko, Evimaria Terzi
• Keywords: Data Mining, Feature Vectors, Original Network, SDM 2010, Social Networks