Reconstruction of social group networks from friendship networks using a tag-based model

Yuan-Pan Guan, Zhi-Qiang You and Xiao-Pu Han

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 463, issue C, 485-492

Abstract: Social group is a type of mesoscopic structure that connects human individuals in microscopic level and the global structure of society. In this paper, we propose a tag-based model considering that social groups expand along the edge that connects two neighbors with a similar tag of interest. The model runs on a real-world friendship network, and its simulation results show that various properties of simulated group network can well fit the empirical analysis on real-world social groups, indicating that the model catches the major mechanism driving the evolution of social groups and successfully reconstructs the social group network from a friendship network and throws light on digging of relationships between social functional organizations.

Keywords: Social groups; Social group networks; Friendship networks; Tag of interest; Network reconstruction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.07.020

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