4 papers
Strength and weakness of disease-induced herd immunity in networks
Takayuki Hiraoka, Zahra Ghadiri, Abbas K. Rizi +2
When a fraction of a population becomes immune to an infectious disease, the population-wide infection risk decreases nonlinearly due to collective protection, known as herd immuni…
Multiplexity is temporal: effects of social times on network structure
Javier Ureña-Carrion, Sara Heydari, Talayeh Aledavood +2
Large-scale social networks constructed using contact metadata have been invaluable tools for understanding and testing social theories of society-wide social structures. However,…
Distinguishing subsampled power laws from other heavy-tailed distributions
Silja Sormunen, Lasse Leskelä, Jari Saramäki
Distinguishing power-law distributions from other heavy-tailed distributions is challenging, and this task is often further complicated by subsampling effects. In this work, we eva…
Disentangling degree and tie strength heterogeneity in egocentric social networks
Sara Heydari, Gerardo Iñiguez, János Kertész +1
The structure of personal networks reflects how we organise and maintain social relationships. The distribution of tie strengths in personal networks is heterogeneous, with a few c…