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

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

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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.

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  • Guan, Yuan-Pan & You, Zhi-Qiang & Han, Xiao-Pu, 2016. "Reconstruction of social group networks from friendship networks using a tag-based model," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 463(C), pages 485-492.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:463:y:2016:i:c:p:485-492
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.07.020
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