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Christofer Edling

Christofer Edling

Professor

Christofer Edling

Structure and time evolution of an Internet dating community

Author

  • P. Holme
  • Christofer Edling
  • F. Liljeros

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.

Publishing year

2004

Language

English

Pages

155-174

Publication/Series

Social Networks

Volume

26

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • sociologi
  • sociology
  • time evolution
  • communication
  • complex networks
  • small-world networks
  • dynamics
  • Internet community
  • social networks

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0378-8733