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 * (C) Copyright 2020-2021, by Dimitrios Michail and Contributors.
 *
 * JGraphT : a free Java graph-theory library
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 */
package org.jgrapht.alg.linkprediction;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Set;

import org.jgrapht.Graph;
import org.jgrapht.Graphs;
import org.jgrapht.alg.interfaces.LinkPredictionAlgorithm;

/**
 * Predict links using the number of common neighbors.
 * 
 * <p>
 * This is a local method which computes $s_{xy} = |\Gamma(u)\cap\Gamma(v))|$ where for a node $v$,
 * $\Gamma(v)$ denotes the set of neighbors of $v$.
 * </p>
 * 
 * See the following two papers:
 * <ul>
 * <li>Liben‐Nowell, David, and Jon Kleinberg. "The link‐prediction problem for social networks."
 * Journal of the American society for information science and technology 58.7 (2007):
 * 1019-1031.</li>
 * <li>Zhou, Tao, Linyuan Lü, and Yi-Cheng Zhang. "Predicting missing links via local information."
 * The European Physical Journal B 71.4 (2009): 623-630.</li>
 * </ul>
 * 
 * @param <V> the graph vertex type
 * @param <E> the graph edge type
 * 
 * @author Dimitrios Michail
 */
public class CommonNeighborsLinkPrediction<V, E>
    implements
    LinkPredictionAlgorithm<V, E>
{
    private Graph<V, E> graph;

    /**
     * Create a new prediction
     * 
     * @param graph the input graph
     */
    public CommonNeighborsLinkPrediction(Graph<V, E> graph)
    {
        this.graph = Objects.requireNonNull(graph);
    }

    @Override
    public double predict(V u, V v)
    {
        List<V> gu = Graphs.successorListOf(graph, u);
        List<V> gv = Graphs.successorListOf(graph, v);

        Set<V> intersection = new HashSet<>(gu);
        intersection.retainAll(gv);

        return intersection.size();
    }

}
