@inproceedings{www2009190, booktitle = {18th International World Wide Web Conference}, month = {April}, title = {Discovering the Staring People From Social Networks}, author = {Dewei Chen and Jie Tang and Juanzi Li and Lizhu Zhou}, year = {2009}, pages = {1219--1219}, url = {http://www2009.eprints.org/190/}, abstract = {In this paper, we study a novel problem of staring people dis- covery from social networks, which is concerned with finding people who are not only authoritative but also sociable in the social network. We formalize this problem as an optimiza- tion programming problem. Taking the co-author network as a case study, we define three objective functions and pro- pose two methods to combine these objective functions. A genetic algorithm based method is further presented to solve this problem. Experimental results show that the proposed solution can effectively find the staring people from social networks. } }