Dynamic network motifs: evolutionary patterns of substructures in complex networks

  • Authors:
  • Yutaka Kabutoya;Kyosuke Nishida;Ko Fujimura

  • Affiliations:
  • NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa, Japan;NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa, Japan;NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

  • Venue:
  • APWeb'11 Proceedings of the 13th Asia-Pacific web conference on Web technologies and applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose an entirely new approach to understanding complex networks; called "dynamic network motifs (DNMs)." We define DNMs as statistically significant local evolutionary patterns of a network. We find such DNMs in the networks of two web services, Yahoo Answers and Flickr, and discuss the social dynamics of these services as indicated by their DNMs.