4 papers
Network control by a constrained external agent as a continuous optimization problem
Jannes Nys, Milan van den Heuvel, Koen Schoors +1
Social science studies dealing with control in networks typically resort to heuristics or describing the static control distribution. Optimal policies, however, require interventio…
The scaling of social interactions across animal species
Luis E C Rocha, Jan Ryckebusch, Koen Schoors +1
Social animals self-organise to create groups to increase protection against predators and productivity. One-to-one interactions are the building blocks of these emergent social st…
Loan maturity aggregation in interbank lending networks obscures mesoscale structure and economic functions
Marnix Van Soom, Milan van den Heuvel, Jan Ryckebusch +1
Since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, substantial academic effort has been dedicated to improving our understanding of interbank lending networks (ILNs). Because of data limitation…
Social Stability and Extended Social Balance - Quantifying the Role of Inactive Links in Social Networks
Andres M. Belaza, Jan Ryckebusch, Aaron Bramson +5
Structural balance in social network theory starts from signed networks with active relationships (friendly or hostile) to establish a hierarchy between four different types of tri…