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Since the 1940's there has been an interest in the question why social networks often give rise to two antagonistic factions. Recently a dynamical model of how and why such a balance might occur was developed. This note provides an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-15 J. J. P. Veerman

We model a close-knit community of friends and enemies as a fully connected network with positive and negative signs on its edges. Theories from social psychology suggest that certain sign patterns are more stable than others. This notion…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-13 Seth A. Marvel , Steven H. Strogatz , Jon M. Kleinberg

Structural balance is an important characteristic of graphs/networks where edges can be positive or negative, with direct impact on the study of real-world complex systems. When a network is not structurally balanced, it is important to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yu Tian , Ernesto Estrada

In signed networks, some existing community detection methods treat negative connections as intercommunity links and positive ones as intracommunity links. However, it is important to recognize that negative links on real-world networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-17 Peng Zhang , Xianyu Xu , Leyang Xue

Fair graph partition of social networks is a crucial step toward ensuring fair and non-discriminatory treatments in unsupervised user analysis. Current fair partition methods typically consider node balance, a notion pursuing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Tingwei Liu , Peizhao Li , Hongfu Liu

Most of the analyses concerning signed networks have focused on the balance theory, hence identifying frustration with undirected, triadic motifs having an odd number of negative edges; much less attention has been paid to their directed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-07 Anna Gallo , Fabio Saracco , Renaud Lambiotte , Diego Garlaschelli , Tiziano Squartini

The truss, a relaxation of the clique based on triangles, serves to identify clusters of actors in a way that is easy to interpret and is computationally attractive. This paper introduces the 4-cycle-based relative to the truss, called the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Jonathan D. Cohen

The Ego Network Model (ENM) describes how individuals organise their social relations in concentric circles (typically five) of decreasing intimacy, and it has been found almost ubiquitously in social networks, both offline and online. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jack Tacchi , Chiara Boldrini , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

Antal et al. [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{72}, 036121 (2005)] have studied the balance dynamics on the social networks. In this paper, based on the model proposed by Antal et al., we improve it and generalize the binary social networks to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-01-05 Qing-Kuan Meng , Wei Liu , Jian-Yang Zhu

Social networks and interactions in social media involve both positive and negative relationships. Signed graphs capture both types of relationships: positive edges correspond to pairs of "friends", and negative edges to pairs of "foes".…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Michael Mitzenmacher , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

In many real-world networks, relationships often go beyond simple dyadic presence or absence; they can be positive, like friendship, alliance, and mutualism, or negative, characterized by enmity, disputes, and competition. To understand the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-21 Xuyang Chen , Yinjie Wang , Weijing Tang

How do social networks evolve when both friendly and unfriendly relations exist? Here we propose a simple dynamics for social networks in which the sense of a relationship can change so as to eliminate imbalanced triads--relationship…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Antal , P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

Most studies of disease spreading consider the underlying social network as obtained without the contagion, though epidemic influences people's willingness to contact others: A "friendly" contact may be turned to "unfriendly" to avoid…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-10 M. Saeedian , N. Azimi-Tafreshi , G. R. Jafari , J. Kertesz

In the recent period of time with a lot of social platforms emerging, the relationships among various units can be framed with respect to either positive, negative or no relation. These units can be individuals, countries or others that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Ranjana Roy Chowdhury , Shivam Gupta , Sravanthi Chede

Signed networks are graphs whose edges are labelled with either a positive or a negative sign, and can be used to capture nuances in interactions that are missed by their unsigned counterparts. The concept of balance in signed graph theory…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Bruno Ordozgoiti , Antonis Matakos , Aristides Gionis

Social networks involve both positive and negative relationships, which can be captured in signed graphs. The {\em edge sign prediction problem} aims to predict whether an interaction between a pair of nodes will be positive or negative. We…

Signed networks are frequently observed in real life with additional sign information associated with each edge, yet such information has been largely ignored in existing network models. This paper develops a unified embedding model for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haoran Zhang , Junhui Wang

We propose the notion of $k$-integration as a measure of equality of opportunity in social networks. A social network is $k$-integrated if there is a path of length at most $k$ between any two individuals, thus guaranteeing that everybody…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Josue Ortega

Community detection, discovering the underlying communities within a network from observed connections, is a fundamental problem in network analysis, yet it remains underexplored for signed networks. In signed networks, both edge connection…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Yichao Chen , Weijing Tang , Ji Zhu

Signed graphs are graphs with signed edges. They are commonly used to represent positive and negative relationships in social networks. While balance theory and clusterizable graphs deal with signed graphs to represent social interactions,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Christopher Thraves