  On-line social networks (OSNs) often contain many different types of
relationships between users. When studying the structure of OSNs such as
Facebook, two of the most commonly studied networks are friendship and
interaction networks. The link prediction problem in friendship networks has
been heavily studied. There has also been prior work on link prediction in
interaction networks, independent of friendship networks. In this paper, we
study the predictive power of combining friendship and interaction networks. We
hypothesize that, by leveraging friendship networks, we can improve the
accuracy of link prediction in interaction networks. We augment several
interaction link prediction algorithms to incorporate friendships and predicted
friendships. From experiments on Facebook data, we find that incorporating
friendships into interaction link prediction algorithms results in higher
accuracy, but incorporating predicted friendships does not when compared to
incorporating current friendships.

Social and Information Networks;Physics and Society