Title :
Influence of relationship strengths to network structures in social network
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Northwest Polytech. Univ., Xi´an, China
Abstract :
Social network provide detailed records of human communication patterns, offering convenient way to information spreading and explore the structure of social networks. Here we provide a model to examine the relationship strengths of social network users, allowing us to simultaneously study diffident structure of social network. We observe a coupling between users´ relationship strengths and network´s structure, with the consequence that in some kind of social network the structure fall apart following a phase transition if the weak ties are removed, but in another kind of social network the structure is robust. We find that in the information exchanged social networks, removing the weak ties have little influence on the information spreading, while in the relationship of social network, removing the weak ties have significant influence on the information spreading.
Keywords :
network theory (graphs); social networking (online); human communication patterns; information exchanged social networks; information spreading; phase transition; social network relationship; social network structure; social network users; user relationship strengths; weak-tie removal; Data mining; Educational institutions; Electronic publishing; Feature extraction; Information services; Internet; Social network services; Network structures; Relationship strengths; Social network; Weak ties;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), 2014 14th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Incheon
DOI :
10.1109/ISCIT.2014.7011916