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Networks are powerful tools for modeling interactions in complex systems. While traditional networks use scalar edge weights, many real-world systems involve multidimensional interactions. For example, in social networks, individuals often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yu Tian , Sadamori Kojaku , Hiroki Sayama , Renaud Lambiotte

Power law distribution is common in real-world networks including online social networks. Many studies on complex networks focus on the characteristics of vertices, which are always proved to follow the power law. However, few researches…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Xiaohan Wang , Zhaoqun Chen , Pengfei Liu , Yuantao Gu

Recent years have seen the world become a closely connected society with the emergence of different types of social networks. Online social networks have provided a way to bridge long distances and establish numerous communication channels…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Mohammad Ayub Latif , Muhammad Naveed , Faraz Zaidi

In this paper, we perform the initial and comprehensive study on the problem of measuring node relevance on signed social networks. We design numerous relevance measurements for signed social networks from both local and global perspectives…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Tyler Derr , Chenxing Wang , Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang

Signed networks are such social networks having both positive and negative links. A lot of theories and algorithms have been developed to model such networks (e.g., balance theory). However, previous work mainly focuses on the unipartite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Junjie Huang , Huawei Shen , Qi Cao , Shuchang Tao , Xueqi Cheng

The capacity to collect fingerprints of individuals in online media has revolutionized the way researchers explore human society. Social systems can be seen as a non-linear superposition of a multitude of complex social networks, where…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-02-16 Michael Szell , Renaud Lambiotte , Stefan Thurner

Real social contacts are often intermittent such that a link between a pair of nodes in a social network is only temporarily used. Effects of such temporal networks on social dynamics have been investigated for several phenomenological…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Ryosuke Nishi , Naoki Masuda

We analyse signed networks from the perspective of balance theory which predicts structural balance as a global structure for signed social networks that represent groups of friends and enemies. The scarcity of balanced networks encouraged…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Samin Aref

The global balance index is used in the network literature to quantify how balanced a signed network is. In this paper we show that the global balance index of financial correlation networks can be used as a systemic risk measure. We define…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-04 Paolo Bartesaghi , Fernando Diaz-Diaz , Rosanna Grassi , Pierpaolo Uberti

We introduce a reshuffled approach to empirical analyze signs' organization in real directed signed social networks of Epinions and Slashdots from the global viewpoint. In the reshuffled approach, each negative link has probability $p_{rs}$…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-02 Long Guo , Fujuan Gao

The global balance is a well-known indicator of the behavior of a signed network. Recent literature has introduced the concept of local balance as a measure of the contribution of a single node to the overall balance of the network. In the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-12 Paolo Bartesaghi , Rosanna Grassi , Pierpaolo Uberti

In signed networks, each edge is labeled as either positive or negative. The edge sign captures the polarity of a relationship. Balance of signed networks is a well-studied property in graph theory. In a balanced (sub)graph, the vertices…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Kartik Sharma , Iqra Altaf Gillani , Sourav Medya , Sayan Ranu , Amitabha Bagchi

A class of networks are those with both positive and negative links. In this manuscript, we studied the interplay between positive and negative ties on mesoscopic level of these networks, i.e., their community structure. A community is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-05 Pouya Esmailian , Seyed Ebrahim Abtahi , Mahdi Jalili

Signed networks, characterized by edges labeled as either positive or negative, offer nuanced insights into interaction dynamics beyond the capabilities of unsigned graphs. Central to this is the task of identifying the maximum balanced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jingbang Chen , Qiuyang Mang , Hangrui Zhou , Richard Peng , Yu Gao , Chenhao Ma

Most real-world networks display not only a heterogeneous distribution of degrees, but also a heterogeneous distribution of weights in the strengths of the connections. Each of these heterogeneities alone has been shown to suppress…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Adilson E. Motter , Changsong Zhou , Juergen Kurths

A simple model is proposed to simulate the evolution of interpersonal relationships in a class. The small social network is simply assumed as an undirected and weighted graph, in which students are represented by vertices, and the extent of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Bo Hu , Xin-Yu Jiang , Jun-Feng Ding , Yan-Bo Xie , Bing-Hong Wang

The value of a social network is generally determined by its size and the connectivity of its nodes. But since some of the nodes may be fake ones and others that are dormant, the question of validating the node counts by statistical tests…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Sieteng Soh , Gongqi Lin , Subhash Kak

In this paper, we investigate stable matching in structured networks. Consider case of matching in social networks where candidates are not fully connected. A candidate on one side of the market gets acquaintance with which one on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-27 Ying Ling , Tao Wan , Zengchang Qin

We propose a model for social dynamics on a network. In this model each actor holds a position on some issue, actors and their opinions being associated to vertices of the graph, and, additionally, the actors hold opinions of one another,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-20 Ikemefuna Agbanusi , Jared C. Bronski

Networks have always played a special role for human beings in shaping social relations, forming public opinion, and driving economic equilibria. Nowadays, online networked platforms dominate digital markets and capitalization…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-17 Antonio Scala , Marco Delmastro