Research Article

A Meta-Path-Based Evaluation Method for Enterprise Credit Risk

Figure 1

Alibaba heterogeneous information network example. There exist multiple types of nodes in the network, such as enterprise (Alibaba, Lazada, YouKu, Heineken), person (Bob, Alex, Jack), commodity (Taobao, Alipay), and news (newspaper). Links between nodes represent relation connect entities, for example, Jack is the founder of Alibaba, Heineken is the supplier of Taobao, and the newspapers report a piece of news of Alibaba’s control company YouKu.