Title
Seasonality in Dynamic Stochastic Block Models.
Abstract
Sociotechnological and geospatial processes exhibit time varying structure that make insight discovery challenging. This paper proposes a new statistical model for such systems, modeled as dynamic networks, to address this challenge. It assumes that vertices fall into one of k types and that the probability of edge formation at a particular time depends on the types of the incident nodes and the current time. The time dependencies are driven by unique seasonal processes, which many systems exhibit (e.g., predictable spikes in geospatial or web traffic each day). The paper defines the model as a generative process and an inference procedure to recover the seasonal processes from data when they are unknown. Evaluation with synthetic dynamic networks show the recovery of the latent seasonal processes that drive its formation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3106426.3109424
Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Dynamic Networks, Kalman Filter, Structural Time Series, State Space Model
Conference
abs/1706.07895
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jace Robinson111.06
Derek Doran217021.22