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In this work, we propose to combine machine learning techniques with existing complex network node ranking algorithms to improve the prediction results. Specifically, we have made the following contributions: (1), we have designed a novel machine learning-based classifier with significantly improved prediction performance; (2), we have constructed and tested various networks built based on the programmer email communication information; and (3), we have used real-world project data to compare different techniques and validate our methods. Experimental results demonstrate that our technique reduces the error rate by 25% compared with the second best. 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