The Evolution of Community Structure in a Coauthorship Network

Mechanisms such as triadic closure and preferential attachment drive the evolution of social networks. Many models use these mechanisms to predict future links, and they generate realistic networks with scale-free degree distributions. These social networks also have community structure, or sets of...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: William Mcdowell, Leonardo Reyes-Gonzalez, Francisco M. Veloso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2011-12-01
Series:Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/SP105XJ.pdf