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Through several studies, it has been highlighted that mobility patterns in mobile networks are driven by human behaviors. This effect has been particularly observed in intermittently connected networks like DTN (Delay Tolerant Networks).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Mohamed-Haykel Zayani , Vincent Gauthier , Ines Slama , Djamal Zeghlache

Temporal networks are suitable for modeling complex evolving systems. It has a wide range of applications, such as social network analysis, recommender systems, and epidemiology. Recently, modeling such dynamic systems has drawn great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jiayun Wu , Tao Jia , Yansong Wang , Li Tao

We study correlations in temporal networks and introduce the notion of betweenness preference. It allows to quantify to what extent paths, existing in time-aggregated representations of temporal networks, are actually realizable based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-20 René Pfitzner , Ingo Scholtes , Antonios Garas , Claudio J. Tessone , Frank Schweitzer

Interaction within small groups can often be represented as a sequence of events, where each event involves a sender and a recipient. Recent methods for modeling network data in continuous time model the rate at which individuals interact…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-08-01 Christopher DuBois , Carter T. Butts , Daniel McFarland , Padhraic Smyth

We are faced with data comprised of entities interacting over time: this can be individuals meeting, customers buying products, machines exchanging packets on the IP network, among others. Capturing the dynamics as well as the structure of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Tiphaine Viard , Henry Soldano , Guillaume Santini

Opinion dynamics on networks has wide applications to empirical and engineered systems and profound prospects in the general study of complex systems. Many efforts have been devoted to understanding how opinion dynamics is affected by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-12 Mingwu Li , Harry Dankowicz

Information propagation on social networks could be modeled as cascades, and many efforts have been made to predict the future popularity of cascades. However, most of the existing research treats a cascade as an individual sequence.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xiaodong Lu , Shuo Ji , Le Yu , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Tongyu Zhu

Graphs are a powerful representation tool in machine learning applications, with link prediction being a key task in graph learning. Temporal link prediction in dynamic networks is of particular interest due to its potential for solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sanaz Hasanzadeh Fard , Mohammad Ghassemi

Three fundamental elements to understand human information networks are the individuals (actors) in the network, the information they exchange, that is often observable online as text content (emails, social media posts, etc.), and the time…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Davide Vega , Matteo Magnani

This paper introduces a logic with a class of social network models that is based on standard Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), leveraging the power of existing model checkers for the analysis of social networks. We provide a short literature…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Vitor Machado , Mario Benevides

Temporal graphs represent the dynamic relationships among entities and occur in many real life application like social networks, e commerce, communication, road networks, biological systems, and many more. They necessitate research beyond…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Shubham Gupta , Srikanta Bedathur

Many societies are organized in networks that are formed by people who meet and interact over time. In this paper, we present a first model to capture the micro-foundations of social networks evolution, where boundedly rational agents of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Ahmed M. Alaa , Kartik Ahuja , Mihaela van der Schaar

Online social systems are multiplex in nature as multiple links may exist between the same two users across different social networks. In this work, we introduce a framework for studying links and interactions between users beyond the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Desislava Hristova , Anastasios Noulas , Chloë Brown , Mirco Musolesi , Cecilia Mascolo

The inference of an underlying network topology from local observations of a complex system composed of interacting units is usually attempted by using statistical similarity measures, such as Cross-Correlation (CC) and Mutual Information…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-09-03 Nicolás Rubido , Arturo C. Martí , Ezequiel Bianco-Martínez , Celso Grebogi , Murilo S. Baptista , Cristina Masoller

Temporal dynamics, characterised by time-varying degree heterogeneity and homophily effects, are often exhibited in many real-world networks. As observed in an MIT Social Evolution study, the in-degree and out-degree of the nodes show…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-29 Yuguo Chen , Lianqiang Qu , Jinfeng Xu , Ting Yan , Yunpeng Zhou

Many natural and artificial networks evolve in time. Nodes and connections appear and disappear at various timescales, and their dynamics has profound consequences for any processes in which they are involved. The first empirical analysis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-21 Michele Starnini , Andrea Baronchelli , Alain Barrat , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

The past analyses of datasets of social networks have enabled us to make empirical findings of a number of aspects of human society, which are commonly featured as stylized facts of social networks, such as broad distributions of network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-27 Hang-Hyun Jo , Yohsuke Murase , János Török , János Kertész , Kimmo Kaski

To find interesting structure in networks, community detection algorithms have to take into account not only the network topology, but also dynamics of interactions between nodes. We investigate this claim using the paradigm of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

Networks observed in real world like social networks, collaboration networks etc., exhibit temporal dynamics, i.e. nodes and edges appear and/or disappear over time. In this paper, we propose a generative, latent space based, statistical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Shubham Gupta , Gaurav Sharma , Ambedkar Dukkipati

We investigate interaction networks that we derive from multivariate time series with methods frequently employed in diverse scientific fields such as biology, quantitative finance, physics, earth and climate sciences, and the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-01-10 Stephan Bialonski , Martin Wendler , Klaus Lehnertz