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	تحلیل شبکه‌های دنیای کوچک و بدون مقیاس	پیش‌بینی پیوند
حوزه	تحلیل شبکه	تحلیل شبکه
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1998 (small-world); 1999 (scale-free)	2003
پدیدآور	—	—
نوع	Descriptive / exploratory network analysis	Network inference task
منبع بنیادین	Watts, D.J. & Strogatz, S.H. (1998). Collective Dynamics of 'Small-World' Networks. Nature, 393(6684), 440-442.	Liben-Nowell, D. & Kleinberg, J. (2007). The Link-Prediction Problem for Social Networks. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(7), 1019-1031.
نام‌های دیگر	Küçük Dünya ve Ölçek-Bağımsız Ağ Analizi, small-world network, scale-free network, preferential attachment analysis	Bağlantı Tahmini (Link Prediction), missing link prediction, future link prediction, edge prediction
مرتبط	9	5
خلاصه	Small-world and scale-free network analysis tests whether a real-world network exhibits two landmark topological signatures identified in 1998-1999: the Watts-Strogatz small-world property (high local clustering combined with short average path lengths) and the Barabási-Albert scale-free property (a degree distribution that follows a power law, meaning a small number of hubs connect to a disproportionately large share of other nodes). Together these frameworks transformed network science by showing that many social, biological, and technological networks share a common structural grammar.	Link prediction is a network-analysis task that estimates which edges are missing from an observed graph or which edges are likely to form in the future. Formalised by Liben-Nowell and Kleinberg (2003, 2007), it covers a spectrum of approaches — from simple structural similarity indices such as Common Neighbors, Jaccard coefficient, and Adamic-Adar, to matrix factorisation, and graph neural network (GNN) methods — and is evaluated with AUC and Average Precision to account for the heavily imbalanced ratio of real to non-existing edges.