RETRACTED: A Clustering-based Link Prediction Method in Social Networks

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Infringed Authors.The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (2012) 92-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34459-6_10. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to the infringed authors, and also to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.