A NEW DYNAMIC COMMUNITY MODEL FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS

Zhe-Ming Lu (), Zhen Wu (), Shi-Ze Guo (), Zhe Chen () and Guang-Hua Song ()
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Zhe-Ming Lu: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
Zhen Wu: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
Shi-Ze Guo: North Electronic Systems Engineering Corporation, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China
Zhe Chen: North Electronic Systems Engineering Corporation, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China
Guang-Hua Song: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2014, vol. 25, issue 02, 1-11

Abstract: In this paper, based on the phenomenon that individuals join into and jump from the organizations in the society, we propose a dynamic community model to construct social networks. Two parameters are adopted in our model, one is the communication ratePathat denotes the connection strength in the organization and the other is the turnover ratePb, that stands for the frequency of jumping among the organizations. Based on simulations, we analyze not only the degree distribution, the clustering coefficient, the average distance and the network diameter but also the group distribution which is closely related to their community structure. Moreover, we discover that the networks generated by the proposed model possess the small-world property and can well reproduce the networks of social contacts.

Keywords: Community structure; complex networks; social networks; small-world property; 89.75.Kd; 89.75.-k; 89.75.Fb; 89.65.Ef; 02.50.-r (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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