%A Dewei Chen %A Jie Tang %A Juanzi Li %A Lizhu Zhou %T Discovering the Staring People From Social Networks %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. %C Madrid, Spain %D 2009 %P 1219-1219 %L www2009190