Modeling time lags in citation networks

Tao Yang Fu, Zhen Lei, Wang Chien Lee

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Abstract

The extant work on network analyses has thus far paid little attention to the heterogeneity in time lags and speed of information propagation along edges. In this paper, we study this novel problem, modeling the time dimension and lags on network edges, in the context of paper and patent citation networks where the variation in the speed of knowledge flows between connected nodes is apparent. We propose to model time lags in knowledge diffusions in citation networks in one of the two ways: deterministic lags and probabilistic lags. Then, we discuss two approaches of computationally working with time lags in edges of citation networks. Experimentally, we study two different applications to demonstrate the importance of the time dimension and lags in citations: (1) HITS algorithm and (2) patent citation recommendation. We conduct experiments on millions of U.S. patent data and Web of Science (WOS) paper data. Our experiments show that incorporating time dimension and lags in edges significantly improve network modeling and analyses.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 16th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2016
EditorsFrancesco Bonchi, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Xindong Wu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages865-870
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509054725
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2016
Event16th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2016 - Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Duration: Dec 12 2016Dec 15 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM
Volume0
ISSN (Print)1550-4786

Other

Other16th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2016
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona, Catalonia
Period12/12/1612/15/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering

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