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Self-organization in Simulated Social Networks

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Computer-Mediated Social Networking (ICCMSN 2008)

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In many social contexts, organisation emerges through interactions between individuals, and not by design. Often these interactions occur in two different phases: a local phase in which closely related individuals interact, and a global phase, in which individuals interact more widely within a community. We show that this Dual Phase Evolution (DPE) is capable of producing common patterns of organization found in real social networks, including the spontaneous appearance of modular structures.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, 3800, Australia

    Tania G. Leishman, David G. Green & Sheree Driver

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Leishman, T.G., Green, D.G., Driver, S. (2009). Self-organization in Simulated Social Networks. In: Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B.T.R. (eds) Computer-Mediated Social Networking. ICCMSN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02276-0_15

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