A Dynamic Model for On-Line Social Networks

  • Authors:
  • Anthony Bonato;Noor Hadi;Paul Horn;Paweł Prałat;Changping Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada;Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada;University of California, San Diego, USA;Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada;Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

  • Venue:
  • WAW '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a deterministic model for on-line social networks based on transitivity and local knowledge in social interactions. In the Iterated Local Transitivity (ILT) model, at each time-step and for every existing node x , a new node appears which joins to the closed neighbour set of x . The ILT model provably satisfies a number of both local and global properties that were observed in real-world on-line social and other complex networks, such as a densification power law, decreasing average distance, and higher clustering than in random graphs with the same average degree. Experimental studies of social networks demonstrate poor expansion properties as a consequence of the existence of communities with low number of inter-community links. A spectral gap for both the adjacency and normalized Laplacian matrices is proved for graphs arising from the ILT model, thereby simulating such bad expansion properties.