Diffusion processes taking place in social networks are used to model a number of phenomena, such as the spread of human or computer viruses, and the adoption of products in `vira...
Social network analysis became a common technique used to model and quantify the properties of social interactions. In this paper, we propose an integrated framework to explore th...
: Real-world social networks, while disparate in nature, often comprise of a set of loose clusters (a.k.a. communities), in which members are better connected to each other than to...
Understanding how the structure of a network evolves over time is one of the most interesting and complex topics in the field of social networks. In our attempt to model the dynam...
We develop a multi-level selection model in the framework of indirect reciprocity. Using two levels of selection, one at the individual level and another at the group level, we pro...
Francisco C. Santos, Fabio A. C. C. Chalub, Jorge ...