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The number of edges reported in the paper is not counted on static graphs, but counted on the graphs built under our time step configuration.
16 graphs are generated from the original static graphs in our paper, and each of them is the combination (summing up the weights for the same edge) of 4 consecutive static graphs.
Specifically, the 16 graphs are built from static graphs 0-3, 2-5, 4-7, ..., 30-33.
Using our script, the sequence of graphs are generated by setting "-l 4 -s 2 -n 16".

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Hi Zhou, why there is an overlapping between each time step? While for the other two datasets, Mobile and Loan, there is no overlapping.

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It is not guaranteed that each researcher, especially graduate students, publishes at least one paper per year. In order to build a more temporally stable dynamic network, I have to merge the records in a short period (4 years considering the average time a Ph.D. student focuses on publications) to build the graph of a single timestep.
I think the ideal value for the stride is 1 (i.e. a 3-year-overlap) so that each student-mentor link may appear in several consecutive time steps, however, I choose 2 simply because there are a moderate number of time steps generated under this setting.

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Thank you Zhou. Does it mean all vertices should appear in every time snapshot?

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Yes. All the snapshots share the same vertex set, although some vertices might be isolated in certain snapshots.

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