Christofer Edling
Professor
Structure and time evolution of an Internet dating community
Författare
Summary, in English
We present statistics for the structure and time evolution of a network constructed from user activity in an Internet community. The vastness and precise time resolution of an Internet community offers unique possibilities to monitor social network formation and dynamics. Time evolution of well-known quantities, such as clustering, mixing (degree-degree correlations), average geodesic length, degree, and reciprocity is studied. In contrast to earlier analyses of scientific collaboration networks, mixing by degree between vertices is found to be disassortative. Furthermore, both the evolutionary trajectories of the average geodesic length and of the clustering coefficients are found to have minima. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Publiceringsår
2004
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
155-174
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Social Networks
Volym
26
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- sociologi
- sociology
- time evolution
- communication
- complex networks
- small-world networks
- dynamics
- Internet community
- social networks
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0378-8733