Université de Fribourg

Effects of high-order correlations on personalized recommendations for bipartite networks

Liu, Jian-Guo ; Zhou, Tao ; Che, Hong-An ; Wang, Bing-Hong ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

In: Physica A, 2010, vol. 389, no. 4, p. 881-886

In this paper, we introduce a modified collaborative filtering (MCF) algorithm, which has remarkably higher accuracy than the standard collaborative filtering. In the MCF, instead of the cosine similarity index, the user–user correlations are obtained by a diffusion process. Furthermore, by considering the second-order correlations, we design an effective algorithm that depresses the influence...

Université de Fribourg

Local preferential attachment model for hierarchical networks

Wang, Li-Na ; Guo, Jin-Li ; Yang, Han-Xin ; Zhou, Tao

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2009, vol. 388, no. 8, p. 1713-1720

A railway transportation system can be represented by a bipartite network consisting of trains and stations, where a train is connected to all stations where it stops. In this paper, motivated by the resource-allocation process taking place on networks, we design a method to project a Chinese train-station bipartite network into a weighted station network. A new metric is proposed to quantify the...

Université de Fribourg

Empirical analysis of dependence between stations in Chinese railway network

Wang, Yong-Li ; Zhou, Tao ; Shi, Jian-Jun ; Wang, Jian ; He, Da-Ren

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2009, vol. 388, no. 14, p. 2949-2955

A railway transportation system can be represented by a bipartite network consisting of trains and stations, where a train is connected to all stations where it stops. In this paper, motivated by the resource-allocation process taking place on networks, we design a method to project a Chinese train-station bipartite network into a weighted station network. A new metric is proposed to quantify the...