Enhancing topology adaptation in information-sharing social networks.
- Cimini G Physics Department, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. giulio.cimini@unifr.ch
- Chen D
- Medo M
- Lü L
- Zhang YC
- Zhou T
- 2012-06-12
Published in:
- Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. - 2012
Algorithms
Computer Simulation
Cooperative Behavior
Humans
Internet
Models, Statistical
Models, Theoretical
Probability
Reproducibility of Results
Social Networking
Social Support
Time Factors
English
The advent of the Internet and World Wide Web has led to unprecedent growth of the information available. People usually face the information overload by following a limited number of sources which best fit their interests. It has thus become important to address issues like who gets followed and how to allow people to discover new and better information sources. In this paper we conduct an empirical analysis of different online social networking sites and draw inspiration from its results to present different source selection strategies in an adaptive model for social recommendation. We show that local search rules which enhance the typical topological features of real social communities give rise to network configurations that are globally optimal. These rules create networks which are effective in information diffusion and resemble structures resulting from real social systems.
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- English
- Open access status
- green
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- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.046108
- PMID 22680539
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/138825
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