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We present a stochastic model for a social network, where new actors may join the network, existing actors may become inactive and, at a later stage, reactivate themselves. Our model captures the evolution of the network, assuming that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Trevor Fenner , Mark Levene , George Loizou , George Roussos

Designing plausible network models typically requires scholars to form a priori intuitions on the key drivers of network formation. Oftentimes, these intuitions are supported by the statistical estimation of a selection of network evolution…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Telmo Menezes , Camille Roth

Novelty attracts attention like popularity. Hence predicting novelty is as important as popularity. Novelty is the side effect of competition and aging in evolving systems. Recent behavior or recent link gain in networks plays an important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Khushnood Abbas

In the study of networked systems such as biological, technological, and social networks the available data are often uncertain. Rather than knowing the structure of a network exactly, we know the connections between nodes only with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Travis Martin , Brian Ball , M. E. J. Newman

There has been considerable recent interest in the properties of networks, such as citation networks and the worldwide web, that grow by the addition of vertices, and a number of simple solvable models of network growth have been studied.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Cristopher Moore , Gourab Ghoshal , M. E. J. Newman

Almost all real-world networks are subject to constant evolution, and plenty of evolving networks have been investigated to uncover the underlying mechanisms for a deeper understanding of the organization and development of them. Compared…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Tao Wu , Leiting Chen

We model the evolution of eukaryotic protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. In our model, PPI networks evolve by two known biological mechanisms: (1) Gene duplication, which is followed by rapid diversification of duplicate…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-07 Jack Peterson , Steve Presse , Kristin S. Peterson , Ken A. Dill

Many social and biological systems are characterized by enduring hierarchies, including those organized around prestige in academia, dominance in animal groups, and desirability in online dating. Despite their ubiquity, the general…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Mari Kawakatsu , Philip S. Chodrow , Nicole Eikmeier , Daniel B. Larremore

Disentangling the mechanisms underlying the social network evolution is one of social science's unsolved puzzles. Preferential attachment is a powerful mechanism explaining social network dynamics, yet not able to explain all scaling-laws…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Yang Yang , Yuxiao Dong , Nitesh V. Chawla

Many real world, complex phenomena have underlying structures of evolving networks where nodes and links are added and removed over time. A central scientific challenge is the description and explanation of network dynamics, with a key test…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-15 Catherine A. Bliss , Morgan R. Frank , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

We introduce and study a general model of social network formation and evolution based on the concept of preferential link formation between similar nodes and increased similarity between connected nodes. The model is studied numerically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 George C. M. A. Ehrhardt , Matteo Marsili , Fernando Vega-Redondo

How self-organized networks develop, mature and degenerate is a key question for sociotechnical, cyberphysical and biological systems with potential applications from tackling violent extremism through to neurological diseases. So far, it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-05 M. Zheng , Z. Cao , Y. Vorobyeva , P. Manrique , C. Song , N. F. Johnson

The rich and varied ways that genetic material can be passed between species has motivated extensive research into the theory of phylogenetic networks. Features that align with biological processes, or with desirable mathematical…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-12 Andrew Francis

Long ties, the social ties that bridge different communities, are widely believed to play crucial roles in spreading novel information in social networks. However, some existing network theories and prediction models indicate that long ties…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Ding Lyu , Yuan Yuan , Lin Wang , Xiaofan Wang , Alex Pentland

Inferring the phylogenetic relationships among a sample of organisms is a fundamental problem in modern biology. While distance-based hierarchical clustering algorithms achieved early success on this task, these have been supplanted by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Benjamin K. Rosenzweig , Matthew W. Hahn

Phylogenetic networks are a type of directed acyclic graph that represent how a set $X$ of present-day species are descended from a common ancestor by processes of speciation and reticulate evolution. In the absence of reticulate evolution,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Andrew Francis , Charles Semple , Mike Steel

In this paper we investigate networks whose evolution is governed by the interaction of a random assembly process and an optimization process. In the first process, new nodes are added one at a time and form connections to randomly selected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-05-16 Markus Brede

Understanding the architectural subtleties of ecological networks, believed to confer them enhanced stability and robustness, is a subject of outmost relevance. Mutualistic interactions have been profusely studied and their corresponding…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-02-19 Virginia Domínguez-García , Miguel A. Muñoz

Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in network analysis. In many applications, notably in genetics, a partially observed network may not contain any negative examples of absent edges, which creates a difficulty for many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-01-30 Yunpeng Zhao , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

In this paper we present a new version of a network growth model, generalized in order to describe the behavior of social networks. The case of study considered is the preprint archive at cul.arxiv.org. Each node corresponds to a scientist,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Michele Catanzaro , Guido Caldarelli , Luciano Pietronero