Predicting connections in scientific collaboration networks

• Grant number: 20/11559-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2021
• End date: March 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science
• Principal Investigator: Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues
• Grantee: Rodrigo Bragato Piva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

A big part of current scientific development is done by collaborations between scientists, which forms a complex network. The main goal of this project is, through link prediction methods and machine learning algorithms, to predict and understand the formation of links between researchers.