How people interact in evolving online affiliation networks

@article{Gallos2011HowPI,
  title={How people interact in evolving online affiliation networks},
  author={Lazaros K. Gallos and Diego Rybski and Fredrik Liljeros and Shlomo Havlin and Hern{\'a}n A. Makse},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2011},
  volume={abs/1111.5534}
}
The study of human interactions is of central importance for understanding the behavior of individuals, groups and societies. Here, we observe the formation and evolution of networks by monitoring the addition of all new links and we analyze quantitatively the tendencies used to create ties in these evolving online affiliation networks. We first show that an accurate estimation of these probabilistic tendencies can only be achieved by following the time evolution of the network. For example… 
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