Modeling Groups in Social Networks

Vincent Levorato (1)

1 LIFO - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans

Studies in social network analysis consider the behavior of a group to be equivalent to the "sum" of individual behaviors. However, a group has to be considered as a complex system where emerging phenomena can appear. In this paper, a formalism is proposed to resolve this problematic by modeling groups in social networks using pretopology as a generalization of the graph theory. We also give an example of simulation using our formalism.

Mots clés: complex systems; modeling; simulation; social networks; group; pretopology

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation

Vincent Levorato. Modeling Groups in Social Networks. (ECMS), Jun 2011, Poland. pp.129-134. ⟨hal-00605395⟩