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  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,955 Views
17 Pages

13 May 2018

In weighted networks, both link weight and topological structure are significant characteristics for link prediction. In this study, a general framework combining null models is proposed to quantify the impact of the topology, weight correlation and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Frontier in Chaos Theory and Complex Networks)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,480 Views
25 Pages

18 June 2022

With the goal of understanding if the information contained in node metadata can help in the task of link weight prediction, we investigate herein whether incorporating it as a similarity feature (referred to as metadata similarity) between end nodes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the Tenth International Conference on Complex Networks & Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,617 Views
12 Pages

The Absence of a Weak-Tie Effect When Predicting Large-Weight Links in Complex Networks

  • Chengjun Zhang,
  • Qi Li,
  • Yi Lei,
  • Ming Qian and ,
  • Xinyu Shen,
  • Di Cheng and
  • Wenbin Yu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 February 2023

Link prediction is a hot issue in information filtering. Link prediction algorithms, based on local similarity indices, are widely used in many fields due to their high efficiency and high prediction accuracy. However, most existing link prediction a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
611 Views
16 Pages

11 January 2026

Link prediction is a fundamental problem for graphs, which can reveal the potential relationships between users. Graph embedding can easily encode graph structural relations, and heterogeneous attribute features in a continuous vector space, which is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph Neural Networks and Transformers for Intelligent Data-Driven Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
219 Views
29 Pages

30 September 2026

Maintaining reliable maritime connectivity is essential to resilient strategic-commodity supply chains, yet link dynamics and external disturbances are often modeled separately. This study develops a dynamic edge-weighted graph convolutional network&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,836 Views
17 Pages

WePred: Edge Weight-Guided Contrastive Learning for Bipartite Link Prediction

  • Linlin Ding,
  • Yiming Han,
  • Mo Li,
  • Yinghao Gu and ,
  • Tingting Liu and
  • Shidong Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Bipartite networks are common in real-world applications, where link prediction helps understand network evolution and make recommendations. Traditional methods have two major limitations; they often ignore edge weight information by treating links a...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
245 Views
35 Pages

5 October 2026

Offshore wind turbines equipped with full-power converters (FPCs) require coordinated control of power tracking, electrical safety, and mechanical load mitigation. Nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) provides a systematic framework for this mul...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,617 Views
23 Pages

19 August 2022

Many similarity measure algorithms of nodes in weighted graph data have been proposed by employing the degree of nodes in recent years. Despite these algorithms obtaining great results, there may be still some limitations. For instance, the strength...

(This article belongs to the Collection Graphs and Networks from an Algorithmic Information Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,709 Views
13 Pages

A Link Prediction Algorithm Based on Weighted Local and Global Closeness

  • Jian Wang,
  • Jun Ning,
  • Lingcong Nie,
  • Qian Liu and
  • Na Zhao

6 November 2023

Link prediction aims to identify unknown or missing connections in a network. The methods based on network structure similarity, known for their simplicity and effectiveness, have garnered widespread attention. A core metric in these methods is &ldqu...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,622 Views
18 Pages

Curriculum–Vacancy–Course Recommendation Model Based on Knowledge Graphs, Sentence Transformers, and Graph Neural Networks

  • Valiya Ramazanova,
  • Madina Sambetbayeva,
  • Sandugash Serikbayeva,
  • Aigerim Yerimbetova and ,
  • Zhanar Lamasheva,
  • Zhanna Sadirmekova and
  • Gulzhamal Kalman
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This article addresses the task of building personalized educational recommendations based on a heterogeneous knowledge graph that integrates data from university curricula, job vacancies, and online courses. To solve the problem of course recommenda...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communication Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,348 Views
17 Pages

A Reliable Merging Link Scheme Using Weighted Markov Chain Model in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

  • Siman Emmanuel,
  • Ismail Fauzi Bin Isnin and
  • Mohd. Murtadha Bin Mohamad

27 June 2022

The vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a potential technology for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) that aims to improve safety by allowing vehicles to communicate quickly and reliably. The rates of merging collision and hidden terminal probl...

(This article belongs to the Topic Design, Simulation and New Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,227 Views
17 Pages

2 December 2024

Predicting ncRNA–protein interactions (NPIs) is essential for understanding regulatory roles in cellular processes and disease mechanisms, yet experimental methods are costly and time-consuming. In this study, we propose NPI-WGNN, a novel weigh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,956 Views
22 Pages

25 June 2023

In East Asia, where several large hub ports exist, maritime container shipping (MCS) has developed rapidly, and the MCS network has become more complex. This study develops a link prediction model that reproduces the changes in the structure of the i...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,003 Views
27 Pages

A Combinatory Framework for Link Prediction in Complex Networks

  • Paraskevas Dimitriou and
  • Vasileios Karyotis

27 August 2023

Link prediction is a very important field in network science with various emerging algorithms, the goal of which is to estimate the presence or absence of an edge in the network. Depending on the type of network, different link prediction algorithms...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IIoT-Enhancing the Industrial World and Business Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,645 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Link Prediction Approach for Directed Complex Networks Using Stochastic Block Modeling

  • Lekshmi S. Nair,
  • Swaminathan Jayaraman and
  • Sai Pavan Krishna Nagam

Link prediction finds the future or the missing links in a social–biological complex network such as a friendship network, citation network, or protein network. Current methods to link prediction follow the network properties, such as the node&...

(This article belongs to the Topic Social Computing and Social Network Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,295 Views
25 Pages

18 September 2025

With the rapid growth in satellite types and numbers in space information networks, accurate and fast inter-satellite link prediction has become a core requirement for topology modeling and capability evaluation. However, the current space informatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
522 Views
17 Pages

Parametric Study of Yields and Properties of Corn Stover-Derived Hydrothermal Liquefaction Products by Using Statistical Approaches

  • Isamu Umeda,
  • Meicen Liu,
  • Jiefu Wang,
  • Yi Zheng and ,
  • Zhiwu Wang,
  • Jaya Shankar Tumuluru and
  • Sandeep Kumar
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 August 2026

Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of lignocellulosic biomass produces multiple product fractions, including solid residue (SR), heavy bio-oil (HBO), aqueous phase (AP), and light bio-oil (LBO). This study mainly applied principal component analysis (PC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
816 Views
21 Pages

30 January 2026

The regional green patent cooperation network describes the structural characteristics of regional collaborative innovation, and the link prediction of the network can anticipate the overall evolution trend, as well as help organizations identify pot...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,837 Views
16 Pages

28 February 2025

Dynamic network link prediction refers to the prediction of possible future links or the identification of missing links on the basis of historical information of dynamic networks. Link prediction aids people in exploring and analyzing complex change...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,949 Views
33 Pages

17 November 2020

Link prediction is the most basic and essential problem in complex networks. This study analyzes the observed topological, time, attributive, label, weight, directional, and symbolic features and auxiliary information to find the lack of connection a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning for Intelligent Engineering Systems and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,566 Views
22 Pages

2 February 2021

This paper focuses on modeling a disorder ensemble of quantum dots (QDs) as a special kind of Random Geometric Graphs (RGG) with weighted links. We compute any link weight as the overlap integral (or electron probability amplitude) between the QDs (=...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
125 Citations
21,566 Views
12 Pages

Emotional Eating in Adolescence: Effects of Emotion Regulation, Weight Status and Negative Body Image

  • Lenka H. Shriver,
  • Jessica M. Dollar,
  • Susan D. Calkins,
  • Susan P. Keane and ,
  • Lilly Shanahan and
  • Laurie Wideman
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 December 2020

Emotional eating is associated with an increased risk of binge eating, eating in the absence of hunger and obesity risk. While previous studies with children and adolescents suggest that emotion regulation may be a key predictor of this dysregulated...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutrition and Public Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,751 Views
16 Pages

Gut Microbiota Patterns Predicting Long-Term Weight Loss Success in Individuals with Obesity Undergoing Nonsurgical Therapy

  • Stephan C. Bischoff,
  • Nguyen K. Nguyen,
  • Benjamin Seethaler,
  • Julia Beisner and ,
  • Philipp Kügler and
  • Thorsten Stefan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 August 2022

Background: The long-term success of nonsurgical weight reduction programs is variable; thus, predictors of outcome are of major interest. We hypothesized that the intestinal microbiota known to be linked with diet and obesity contain such predictive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Weight Management Interventions: Predictors and Outcomes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,625 Views
15 Pages

Extant research studies have documented that teen victims of traditional bullying are more likely to be perpetrators of Internet harassment. Teasing is a typical form of verbal bullying, but, unfortunately, its link with Internet harassment perpetrat...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
981 Views
18 Pages

27 November 2025

Link prediction is a technique for predicting future or missing relationships between entities based on current network information. Recent studies on link prediction in multiplex networks have improved prediction accuracy by considering inter-layer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Representation Learning for Social Network Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,060 Views
13 Pages

Cost-Sensitive Rainfall Intensity Prediction with High-Noise Commercial Microwave Link Data

  • Liankai Zheng,
  • Jiaxiang Lin,
  • Zhixin Huang,
  • Yu Lin and ,
  • Qin Zheng,
  • Qianqian Chen,
  • Lizheng Lin and
  • Jianyun Chen
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 September 2024

Rainfall intensity prediction based on commercial microwave link data has received significant attention in recent years due to the higher spatial resolution and lower energy consumption. However, the predictive performance is inferior to the model b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
575 Views
49 Pages

14 August 2026

Ultra-wideband (UWB) inter-node ranging provides relative-distance constraints for cooperative localization in GNSS-denied UAV swarms, but dense candidate networks can exceed the available ranging slots, communication bandwidth, computation, and ener...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,511 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2022

In the domain of network science, the future link between nodes is a significant problem in social network analysis. Recently, temporal network link prediction has attracted many researchers due to its valuable real-world applications. However, the m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal and Multifractal Analysis of Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,522 Views
11 Pages

31 May 2024

Background: Adolescents’ early responses and overall outcomes during anorexia nervosa (AN) treatment may differ by patient gender, raising the question of whether evaluating clinical data during AN treatment may require different criteria. Meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Personalized Medicine in Children and Adolescent Psychology)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,420 Views
10 Pages

The recently deployed Sentinel 2 satellite constellation produces images in 13 wavelength bands with a Ground Sampling Distance (GSD) of 10 m, 20 m, and 60 m. Super-resolution aims to generate all 13 bands with a spatial resolution of 10 m. This pape...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 42nd International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
914 Views
17 Pages

12 December 2025

Under unbalanced grid conditions, the three-phase Vienna rectifier exhibits significant voltage fluctuations in dc-link and asymmetric input currents. Traditional control methods cannot simultaneously suppress the voltage ripples in dc-link and balan...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,015 Views
13 Pages

Load Balancing Oriented Predictive Routing Algorithm for Data Center Networks

  • Yazhi Liu,
  • Jiye Zhang,
  • Wei Li,
  • Qianqian Wu and
  • Pengmiao Li

22 February 2021

A data center undertakes increasing background services of various applications, and the data flows transmitted between the nodes in data center networks (DCNs) are consequently increased. At the same time, the traffic of each link in a DCN changes d...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,185 Views
24 Pages

Predicting the Cost Outcome of Construction Quality Problems Using Case-Based Reasoning (CBR)

  • Neşet Berkay Doğan,
  • Bilal Umut Ayhan,
  • Gokhan Kazar,
  • Murathan Saygili and ,
  • Yunus Emre Ayözen and
  • Onur Behzat Tokdemir
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 November 2022

Quality problems are crucial in construction projects since poor quality might lead to delays, low productivity, and cost overruns. In case preventive actions are absent, a lack of quality results in a chain of problems. As a solution, this study dea...

(This article belongs to the Collection Construction Management – Future Innovations, Methods, Techniques and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,424 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2018

Various amounts of 2-((acryloyloxy)ethyl)trimethylammonium chloride were grafted onto chitosan (CS) via redox polymerization method to obtain water-soluble quaternized CS (QCS). The QCS nanoparticles loaded with bovine serum albumin (BSA) were then p...

(This article belongs to the Collection Polysaccharides)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,870 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Single-Phase Shunt Active Power Filter with a Cost Function Based Model Predictive Current Control Technique

  • Belqasem Aljafari,
  • Kanagavel Rameshkumar,
  • Vairavasundaram Indragandhi and
  • Selvamathi Ramachandran

21 June 2022

For a single-phase Shunt Active Power Filter (SAPF) with a two-step prediction, this research presents a modified current control based on a Model Predictive Current Control (MPCC) technique. An H-bridge inverter, a DC link capacitor, and a filter in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Energy Management for Microgrid and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,489 Views
17 Pages

Joint Timekeeping of Navigation Satellite Constellation with Inter-Satellite Links

  • Leyuan Sun,
  • Wende Huang,
  • Shuaihe Gao,
  • Wei Li and ,
  • Xiye Guo and
  • Jun Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 January 2020

As a system of ranging and positioning based on time transfer, the timekeeping ability of a navigation satellite constellation is a key factor for accurate positioning and timing services. As the timekeeping performances depend on the frequency stabi...

(This article belongs to the Collection Positioning and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
432 Views
21 Pages

A Dual-Channel Architecture Based on GCN and HGCN for Dynamic Link Prediction

  • Bing Wu,
  • Sheng Zhang,
  • Jiangnan Zhou,
  • Mengen Xu and ,
  • Qiuming Wang,
  • Yirong Zeng,
  • Ka Sun and
  • Fenglian Yuan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 August 2026

Dynamic link prediction, which aims to infer future edges from historical network structures, is a fundamental task in dynamic network analysis. Traditional models fail to capture high-order information, while existing methods neglect the distinct te...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higher-Order Interactions and Their Relevance to Real Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,463 Views
19 Pages

Link Prediction Based on Heterogeneous Social Intimacy and Its Application in Social Influencer Integrated Marketing

  • Shugang Li,
  • He Zhu,
  • Zhifang Wen,
  • Jiayi Li and ,
  • Yuning Zang,
  • Jiayi Zhang,
  • Ziqian Yan and
  • Yanfang Wei
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 July 2023

The social influencer integrated marketing strategy, which builds social influencers through potential users, has gained widespread attention in the industry. Traditional Scoring Link Prediction Algorithms (SLPA) mainly rely on homogeneous network in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,233 Views
20 Pages

Sparse Subgraph Prediction Based on Adaptive Attention

  • Weijun Li,
  • Yuxiao Gao,
  • Ang Li,
  • Xinyong Zhang and ,
  • Jianlai Gu and
  • Jintong Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 July 2023

Link prediction is a crucial problem in the analysis of graph-structured data, and graph neural networks (GNNs) have proven to be effective in addressing this problem. However, the computational and temporal costs associated with large-scale graphs r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Graphs: State-of-the-Art and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,819 Views
21 Pages

17 July 2025

Negative weight-based attitudes are pervasive and difficult to change. One reason may be the moralization of weight: if people use higher weight as a cue for lower self-control, they may infer lower moral character, given the strong link between self...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,851 Views
13 Pages

Variation of DNA Methylation in Newborns Associated with Exhaled Carbon Monoxide during Pregnancy

  • Ediane De Queiroz Andrade,
  • Gabriela Martins Costa Gomes,
  • Adam Collison,
  • Jane Grehan and ,
  • Vanessa E. Murphy,
  • Peter Gibson,
  • Joerg Mattes and
  • Wilfried Karmaus
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Fetal exposure to tobacco smoke is an adverse risk factor for newborns. A plausible mechanism of how this exposure may negatively impact long term health is differential methylation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNAm) and its relation to birth weight. We...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
702 Views
18 Pages

Integrated Metagenomic and Metabolomic Profiling Identifies Predictive Biomarkers for Overweight Status in a Mongolian Population

  • Zhixin Zhao,
  • Xiaoyan Wang,
  • Fang Wen,
  • Feiyan Zhao and ,
  • Mengdi Zhang and
  • Bilige Menghe
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Mongolians have high overweight prevalence linked to their nomadic lifestyle and diet, but gut microbiota studies in this population are scarce. This study used fecal metagenomic and serum metabolomic analyses of 96 Mongolian participants (normal-wei...

(This article belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)
  • Article
  • Open Access
290 Views
38 Pages

In attribute-based multimodal knowledge graphs, images and text serve as auxiliary entity attributes, providing semantic evidence beyond graph topology for link prediction. However, bidirectional conditional dependencies between an entity’s mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia and Image Understanding)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,110 Views
32 Pages

14 December 2025

In Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) with mobile nodes, the mobility of the nodes leads to dynamic changes in the network topology. Thus, pre-established routing paths may become invalid and next-hop nodes may be unavailable due to link dis...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,925 Views
12 Pages

Is the CYP2D6 Genotype Associated with Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain?

  • Gesche Jürgens,
  • Benjamin Skov Kaas-Hansen,
  • Merete Nordentoft,
  • Thomas Werge and
  • Stig Ejdrup Andersen

17 October 2022

Antipsychotic-induced weight gain (AIWG) is a serious adverse effect. Studies have linked genetically-predicted CYP2D6 metabolic capacity to AIWG. The evidence, however, is ambiguous. We performed multiple regression analyses examining the associatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Pharmacogenetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,285 Views
15 Pages

Predicting Hospital Readmission for Campylobacteriosis from Electronic Health Records: A Machine Learning and Text Mining Perspective

  • Shang-Ming Zhou,
  • Ronan A. Lyons,
  • Muhammad A. Rahman,
  • Alexander Holborow and
  • Sinead Brophy

10 January 2022

(1) Background: This study investigates influential risk factors for predicting 30-day readmission to hospital for Campylobacter infections (CI). (2) Methods: We linked general practitioner and hospital admission records of 13,006 patients with CI in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Personalized Medicine with Biomedical and Health Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,596 Views
10 Pages

23 August 2020

To improve the prediction ability of ranking models in sports, a generalized PageRank model is introduced. In the model, a game graph is constructed from the perspective of Bayesian correction with game results. In the graph, nodes represent teams, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence and Data Mining in Sports)
  • Article
  • Open Access
710 Views
43 Pages

Network State Aware Dual-Graph Spatiotemporal Fusion Prediction Model for SDN Dynamic Routing Optimization

  • Jiaxian Zhu,
  • Jialing Zhao,
  • Weihua Bai,
  • Chuanbin Zhang and ,
  • Zhizhe Lin and
  • Teng Zhou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Software-defined networking (SDN) provides a flexible solution to manage complex networks on demand by centralized control and programmability. However, efficiently optimizing network configurations to achieve load balance and improve service quality...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative and Representation Learning Models for Spatio-Temporal Tasks and Recommendation: Towards Collaborative Computing Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,585 Views
22 Pages

15 August 2024

Link prediction is a fundamental problem in graphs. Currently, SubGraph Representation Learning (SGRL) methods provide state-of-the-art solutions for link prediction by transforming the task into a graph classification problem. However, existing SGRL...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,187 Views
23 Pages

3 March 2026

Knowledge graph completion via link prediction is critical for intelligent equipment maintenance systems to support accurate fault diagnosis and maintenance decision making. However, existing approaches struggle to simultaneously capture local struct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry Study in Graph Theory)

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