Social Balance in the Triangle-Growing Networks

Abstract

In this article, we construct a triangle-growing network with tunable clusters and study the social balance dynamics in this network. The built network, which could reflect more features of real communities, has more triangle relations than the ordinary random-growing network. Then we apply the local triad social dynamics to the built network. The effects of the different cluster coefficients and the initial states to the final stationary states are discussed. Some new features of the sparse networks are found as well.

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Liu, W. and Meng, Q. (2013) Social Balance in the Triangle-Growing Networks. Social Networking, 2, 152-156. doi: 10.4236/sn.2013.23014.

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