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We present a modeling framework for dynamical and bursty contact networks made of agents in social interaction. We consider agents' behavior at short time scales, in which the contact network is formed by disconnected cliques of different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-03-09 Juliette Stehle , Alain Barrat , Ginestra Bianconi

Nowadays, social media is the main tool in our new lives. The outbreak news and all related obtained from social media, and mob events affect the of spread these news fast. Recently, epidemiological models to study disease spread and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jumana H. S. Alkhalissi , Ahmed Al-Taweel

How social networks influence human behavior has been an interesting topic in applied research. Existing methods often utilized scale-level behavioral data to estimate the influence of a social network on human behavior. This study proposes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Jina Park , Ick Hoon Jin , Minjeong Jeon

The question how social norms can emerge from microscopic interactions between individuals is a key problem in social sciences to explain collective behavior. In this paper we propose an agent-based model to show that randomly distributed…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-09-07 Thomas Fent , Patrick Groeber , Frank Schweitzer

Recent years saw an increased interest in modeling and understanding the mechanisms of opinion and innovation spread through human networks. Using analysis of real-world social data, researchers are able to gain a better understanding of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Ajay Saini , Natasha Markuzon

Dynamical processes on time-varying complex networks are key to understanding and modeling a broad variety of processes in socio-technical systems. Here we focus on empirical temporal networks of human proximity and we aim at understanding…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-11-01 Laetitia Gauvin , André Panisson , Ciro Cattuto , Alain Barrat

Historically studies of behaviour on networks have focused on the behaviour of individuals (node-based) or on the aggregate behaviour of the entire network. We propose a new method to decompose a temporal network into macroscale components…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Andrew Mellor

Network scientists have proposed that infectious diseases involving person-to-person transmission may be effectively halted by targeting interventions at a minority of highly connected individuals. Can this strategy be effective in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Gianluca Manzo , Arnout van de Rijt

Synchronized movement of (both unicellular and multicellular) systems can be observed almost everywhere. Understanding of how organisms are regulated to synchronized behavior is one of the challenging issues in the field of collective…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-25 Udoy S. Basak , Sulimon Sattari , Md. Motaleb Hossain , Kazuki Horikawa , Tamiki Komatsuzaki

Many social, biological, and technological systems are recorded as sequences of time-stamped interactions. In such systems, concurrency, i.e., the tendency for an individual to participate in multiple interactions approximately at the same…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-26 Jiyoung Kang , Hang-Hyun Jo , Naoki Masuda

Temporal social networks are characterized by {heterogeneous} duration of contacts, which can either follow a power-law distribution, such as in face-to-face interactions, or a Weibull distribution, such as in mobile-phone communication.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-23 Kun Zhao , Márton Karsai , Ginestra Bianconi

In human societies opinion formation is mediated by social interactions, consequently taking place on a network of relationships and at the same time influencing the structure of the network and its evolution. To investigate this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-05-22 Gerardo Iñiguez , János Kertész , Kimmo K. Kaski , R. A. Barrio

This paper proposes and analyzes a novel multi-agent opinion dynamics model in which agents have access to actions which are quantized version of the opinions of their neighbors. The model produces different behaviors observed in social…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-08 N. R. Chowdhury , I. -C. Morarescu , S. Martin , S. Srikant

In this paper, we consider a multi-agent system consisting of mobile agents with second-order dynamics. The communication network is determined by the so-called topological interaction rule: agents interact with a fixed number of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Samuel Martin

A model of interacting agents, following plausible behavioral rules into a world where the Covid-19 epidemic is affecting the actions of everyone. The model works with (i) infected agents categorized as symptomatic or asymptomatic and (ii)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Gianpiero Pescarmona , Pietro Terna , Alberto Acquadro , Paolo Pescarmona , Giuseppe Russo , Emilio Sulis , Stefano Terna

Contact patterns in populations fundamentally influence the spread of infectious diseases. Current mathematical methods for epidemiological forecasting on networks largely assume that contacts between individuals are fixed, at least for the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Erik Volz , Lauren Ancel Meyers

Numerous centrality measures have been proposed to evaluate the importance of nodes in networks, yet comparative analyses of these measures remain limited. Based on 80 real-world networks, we conducted an empirical analysis of 16…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-08-14 Yilin Bi , Xinshan Jiao , Tao Zhou

Understanding dynamics of an outbreak like that of COVID-19 is important in designing effective control measures. This study aims to develop an agent based model that compares changes in infection progression by manipulating different…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-24 Anik Burman , Sayak Chatterjee , Pramit Ghosh , Indranil Mukhokadhyay

In this work, we study the epidemic SIR model on a system which takes into consideration face-to-face interaction networks. This approach has been used as prototype to describe people interactions in different kinds of social organizations…

Threshold models try to explain the consequences of social influence like the spread of fads and opinions. Along with models of epidemics, they constitute a major theoretical framework of social spreading processes. In threshold models on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-27 Fariba Karimi , Petter Holme