Abstract
Social Network Analysis determines the relationships between people, organizations, groups or entities and the flow of information between them. A literature review is done for social network analysis and the prediction of links that could be done in future between the different entities within the network, many use cases are shown here for applying Social Network Analysis in different industries. This survey introduces different approaches to anticipating the connection between nodes in the social network. It will also support future research and development work as well as raising the awareness for the presented approaches.