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This paper presents the foundational ideas for a new way of modeling social aggregation. Traditional approaches have been using network theory, and the theory of random networks. Under that paradigm, every social agent is represented by a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mirco A. Mannucci , Lisa Sparks , Daniele C. Struppa

Gravity is one of the most prominent models used across various social areas, including economics, demography, mobility, politics, and other systems where spatial interactions are relevant. The model represents a flexible approach that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-03 Rafael Prieto-Curiel

Social interactions vary in time and appear to be driven by intrinsic mechanisms, which in turn shape the emerging structure of the social network. Large-scale empirical observations of social interaction structure have become possible only…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-09 Guillaume Laurent , Jari Saramäki , Márton Karsai

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

In the post year 2000 era the technologies that facilitate human communication have rapidly multiplied. While the adoption of these technologies has hugely impacted the behaviour and sociality of people, specifically in urban but also in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-16 Kunal Bhattacharya , Kimmo Kaski

One distinctive and pervasive aspect of social systems is the fact that they comprise several kinds of agents. Thus, in order to draw parallels with physical systems one is lead to consider binary (or multi-component) compounds. Recent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bertrand M. Roehner

The interactions among human beings represent the backbone of our societies. How people interact, establish new connections, and allocate their activities among these links can reveal a lot of our social organization. Despite focused…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-01 Enrico Ubaldi , Raffaella Burioni , Vittorio Loreto , Fancesca Tria

We proposed social synergetics and the four basic theorems, in which theorem of perfect correlation on humanity is researched mathematically. Generally, we discuss the four variables and the eight aspects in social physics. We search social…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yi-Fang Chang

Real-world networks such as the Internet and WWW have many common traits. Until now, hundreds of models were proposed to characterize these traits for understanding the networks. Because different models used very different mechanisms, it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Bojin Zheng , Hongrun Wu , Li Kuang , Jun Qin , Wenhua Du , Jianmin Wang , Deyi Li

This paper presents the design of deep learning architectures which allow to classify the social relationship existing between two people who are walking in a side-by-side formation into four possible categories --colleagues, couple, family…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Oscar Castro , Ely Repiso , Anais Garrell , Alberto Sanfeliu

Social networks existing among employees, customers or users of various IT systems have become one of the research areas of growing importance. A social network consists of nodes - social entities and edges linking pairs of nodes. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Piotr Bródka , Przemysław Kazienko , Katarzyna Musiał , Krzysztof Skibicki

Much of social network analysis is - implicitly or explicitly - predicated on the assumption that individuals tend to be more similar to their friends than to strangers. Thus, an observed social network provides a noisy signal about the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-18 Ittai Abraham , Shiri Chechik , David Kempe , Aleksandrs Slivkins

Electronic databases, from phone to emails logs, currently provide detailed records of human communication patterns, offering novel avenues to map and explore the structure of social and communication networks. Here we examine the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -P. Onnela , J. Saramaki , J. Hyvonen , G. Szabo , D. Lazer , K. Kaski , J. Kertesz , A. -L. Barabasi

Networks are convenient mathematical models to represent the structure of complex systems, from cells to societies. In the past decade, multilayer network science -- the branch of the field dealing with units interacting in multiple…

While a large number of informal factors influence how people interact, modern societies rely upon law as a primary mechanism to formally control human behaviour. How legal rules impact societal development depends on the interplay between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Daniel Martin Katz , Corinna Coupette , Janis Beckedorf , Dirk Hartung

Physicists study a wide variety of phenomena creating new interdisciplinary research fields by applying theories and methods originally developed in physics in order to solve problems in economics, social science, biology, medicine,…

Popular Physics · Physics 2007-07-24 D. Volchenkov , Ph. Blanchard

Small-world networks are the focus of recent interest because they appear to circumvent many of the limitations of either random networks or regular lattices as frameworks for the study of interaction networks of complex systems. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-08 Luis A. Nunes Amaral , Antonio Scala , Marc Barthelemy , H. Eugene Stanley

Networked structures arise in a wide array of different contexts such as technological and transportation infrastructures, social phenomena, and biological systems. These highly interconnected systems have recently been the focus of a great…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alain Barrat , Marc Barthelemy , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

The richness that characterizes relationships is often absent when they are modeled using computational methods in network science. Typically, relationships are represented simply as links, perhaps with weights. The lack of finer…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Sebastian Deri , Jeremie Rappaz , Luca Maria Aiello , Daniele Quercia

The society has a multi-layered structure, where the layers represent the different contexts. To model this structure we begin with a single-layer weighted social network (WSN) model showing the Granovetterian structure. We find that when…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-28 Janos Kertesz , Janos Torok , Yohsuke Murase , Hang-Hyun Jo , Kimmo Kaski