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Social network heterogeneity benefits individuals at the expense of groups in the creation of innovation
Fatemeh Zarei, Jan Ryckebusch, Koen Schoors +1
Innovation is fundamental for development and provides a competitive advantage for societies. It is the process of creating more complex technologies, ideas, or protocols from exis…
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…
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…
Statistical Physics of Balance Theory
Andres M. Belaza, Kevin Hoefman, Jan Ryckebusch +3
Triadic relationships are accepted to play a key role in the dynamics of social and political networks. Building on insights gleaned from balance theory in social network studies a…