Community dynamics in connected time-dependent multilayer networks
Abstract
Different strategies have been considered to extract information from social media about how similarly people react to the same news or event. In this context, a powerful method is offered by the application of graph techniques to the contents produced by social network users. In particular, large events typically attract enough content traffic along time to enable an analysis that explicitly models a dependence from the time dimension. Here we demonstrate how it is possible to extend the application of community detection strategies in complex networks to the case of time-dependent multilayer networks, whenever the connection between consecutive time layers is non-trivial. We apply the method to 400K Twitter post related to the Expo event held in Milan (Italy) between May and October 2015.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1511.03447,
title = {Community dynamics in connected time-dependent multilayer networks},
author = {Marco Cristoforetti and Marco Guerini and Giuseppe Jurman and Cesare Furlanello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.03447},
year = {2015}
}