%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.