Weblog has quickly evolved into a new information and knowledge dissemination channel. Yet it is not easy to discover weblog communities through keyword search. The main contribut...
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...
—Identifying modules, or natural communities, in large complex networks is fundamental in many fields, including social sciences, biological sciences and engineering. Recently s...
Co-authorship networks, an important type of social networks, have been studied extensively from various angles such as degree distribution analysis, social community extraction a...
We study the dynamics of the Naming Game [Baronchelli et al., (2006) J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. P06014] in empirical social networks. This stylized agentbased model captures essen...