Laboratoire de Génie Informatique et d’Automatique de l’Artois

Ph.D. thesis of Sabrine MALLEK

Social network Analysis Under a belief function Framework

Starting date: 5 January 2016
Keywords: Social Networks, Link prediction, Belief functions theory
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Social networks are large structures that depict social linkage between millions of actors. Social network analysis came out as a tool to study and monitor the patterning of such structures. One of the key problems handled to understand social networks evolving over time is the prediction of a future association between unlinked nodes, known as the link prediction problem. Traditional link prediction methods are designed to deal with social networks under a certain framework. Yet, data of such networks are usually noisy, missing and prone to observation errors causing distortions and likely unaccurate results. The belief function theory is an appealing framework for reasoning under uncertainty that permits to represent, quantify and manage imperfect evidence. The main aim of these works is to build models and approaches to deal with the problem of links prediction under uncertainty which describe the data provided in social network.

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Partners

LGI2A

Université d'Artois
France

Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis

University of Tunis
Tunisia

Defense

Defense took place the 03/07/2018 am31 10:00 Room Prestige, FSA

Jury:

  • Rapporteur Marie-Jeanne LESOT Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6
  • Rapporteur Didier COQUIN Université Savoie Mont-Blanc
  • Examinateur Jean-Loup GUILLAUME Université de La Rochelle
  • Président Nahla BEN AMOR ISG Tunis
  • Invité David MERCIER Université d'Artois
  • Co-directeur Zied ELOUEDI ISG de Tunis
  • Directeur Eric LEFEVRE Université d'Artois