@Article{10798587.2017.1355656,
AUTHOR = {Jing Jia, Tinghuai Ma, Fan Xing, William Farah, Donghai Guan},
TITLE = {Friends Classification of Ego Network Based on Combined Features},
JOURNAL = {Intelligent Automation \& Soft Computing},
VOLUME = {24},
YEAR = {2018},
NUMBER = {4},
PAGES = {819--827},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/iasc/v24n4/39808},
ISSN = {2326-005X},
ABSTRACT = {Ego networks consist of a user and his/her friends and depending on the number of friends a user 
has, makes them cumbersome to deal with. Social Networks allow users to manually categorize their 
“circle of friends”, but in today’s social networks due to the unlimited number of friends a user has, it is 
imperative to find a suitable method to automatically administrate these friends. Manually categorizing 
friends means that the user has to regularly check and update his circle of friends whenever the friends 
list grows. This may be time consuming for users and the results may not be accurate enough. In 
this paper, to solve this problem, we present a method, which combining user attributes, network 
structure and contact frequent three aspects. Efficiently using the profile of users, we first identify the 
relationship between them and then we attempt to solve the problem of community identification 
when a user’s profile is missing or inaccessible by use of ego network structural features. Lastly, to 
obtain more accurate results and realize updates automatically, we attempt to find those friends who 
have frequent contacts with the user. We compare the performance of the proposed algorithm with 
other methods, and the results show that our method has significant advantages to them.},
DOI = {10.1080/10798587.2017.1355656}
}