Title
A clique-superposition model for social networks
Abstract
How does a social network evolve? Sociologists have studied this question for many years.According to some famous sociologists,social links are driven by social intersections.Actors who affiliate with the shared intersections tend to become interpersonally linked and form a cluster.In the social network,an actor cluster could be a clique or a group of several smaller-sized cliques.Thus we can conclude that a social network is composed of superposed cliques of different sizes.However,sociologists did not verify the theory in large scale data due to lack of computing ability.Motivated by this challenge,incorporated with the theory,we utilize data mining technologies to study the evolution patterns of large scale social networks in real world.Then,we propose a novel Clique-superposition generative model,which generates undirected weighted networks.By extensive experiments,we demonstrate that our model can generate networks with static and time evolving patterns observed not only in earlier literature but also in our work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s11432-011-4526-y
SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
Keywords
DocType
Volume
social networks, graph mining, Clique-superposition, graph generator, KEWLS
Journal
56
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1869-1919
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
yan fei150.82
Shaowei Cai240236.58
Ming Zhang31963107.42
liu guojun4151.03
Zhi-Hong Deng518523.33