TY - CONF ID - www2009190 UR - http://www2009.eprints.org/190/ A1 - Chen, Dewei A1 - Tang, Jie A1 - Li, Juanzi A1 - Zhou, Lizhu Y1 - 2009/04// N2 - 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. TI - Discovering the Staring People From Social Networks SP - 1219 M2 - Madrid, Spain AV - public EP - 1219 T2 - 18th International World Wide Web Conference ER -