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Title: | Self-similar community structure in a network of human interactions |
Author: | Guimerà Manrique, Roger Danon, Leon Díaz Guilera, Albert Giralt, Francesc Arenas, Àlex |
Keywords: | Física Physics |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
Publisher: | The American Physical Society |
Abstract: | We propose a procedure for analyzing and characterizing complex networks. We apply this to the social network as constructed from email communications within a medium sized university with about 1700 employees. Email networks provide an accurate and nonintrusive description of the flow of information within human organizations. Our results reveal the self-organization of the network into a state where the distribution of community sizes is self-similar. This suggests that a universal mechanism, responsible for emergence of scaling in other self-organized complex systems, as, for instance, river networks, could also be the underlying driving force in the formation and evolution of social networks. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.68.065103 |
It is part of: | Physical Review E, 2003, vol. 68, núm. 6, p. 065103-1-065103-4 |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/18818 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.68.065103 |
ISSN: | 1063-651X |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Física de la Matèria Condensada) |
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