%0 Conference Paper
%A Chen, Dewei
%A Tang, Jie
%A Li, Juanzi
%A Zhou, Lizhu
%B 18th International World Wide Web Conference
%C Madrid, Spain
%D 2009
%F www2009:190
%P 1219-1219
%T Discovering the Staring People From Social Networks
%U http://www2009.eprints.org/190/
%X 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.