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Article Dans Une Revue Social Networks Analysis and Mining Année : 2018

Stream Graphs and Link Streams for the Modeling of Interactions over Time

Matthieu Latapy
Tiphaine Viard
Clémence Magnien

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Graph theory provides a language for studying the structure of relations, and it is often used to study interactions over time too. However, it poorly captures the both temporal and structural nature of interactions, that calls for a dedicated formalism. In this paper, we generalize graph concepts in order to cope with both aspects in a consistent way. We start with elementary concepts like density, clusters, or paths, and derive from them more advanced concepts like cliques, degrees, clustering coefficients, or connected components. We obtain a language to directly deal with interactions over time, similar to the language provided by graphs to deal with relations. This formalism is self-consistent: usual relations between different concepts are preserved. It is also consistent with graph theory: graph concepts are special cases of the ones we introduce. This makes it easy to generalize higher-level objects such as quotient graphs, line graphs, k-cores, and centralities. This paper also considers discrete versus continuous time assumptions, instantaneous links, and extensions to more complex cases.
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hal-01665084 , version 1 (15-12-2017)

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Matthieu Latapy, Tiphaine Viard, Clémence Magnien. Stream Graphs and Link Streams for the Modeling of Interactions over Time. Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2018, 8 (1), pp.61:1-61:29. ⟨10.1007/s13278-018-0537-7⟩. ⟨hal-01665084⟩
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