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Social networks in communities, markets, and societies self-organise through the interactions of many individuals. In this paper we use a well-known mechanism of social interactions — the balance of sentiment in triadic relations — to describe the development of social networks. Our model contrasts with many existing network models, in that people not only establish but also break up relations whilst the network evolves. The procedure generates several interesting network features such as a variety of degree distributions and degree correlations. The resulting network converges under certain conditions to a steady critical state where temporal disruptions in triangles follow a power-law distribution.
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Ludwig, M., Abell, P. An evolutionary model of social networks. Eur. Phys. J. B 58, 97–105 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2007-00200-x
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