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A generalized theory of preferential linking
Haibo Hu, Jinli Guo, Xuan Liu
There are diverse mechanisms driving the evolution of social networks. A key open question dealing with understanding their evolution is: How various preferential linking mechanism…
How people make friends in social networking sites - A microscopic perspective
Haibo Hu, Xiaofan Wang
We study the detailed growth of a social networking site with full temporal information by examining the creation process of each friendship relation that can collectively lead to…
Individual popularity and activity in online social systems
Haibo Hu, Dingyi Han, Xiaofan Wang
We propose a stochastic model of web user behaviors in online social systems, and study the influence of attraction kernel on statistical property of user or item occurrence. Combi…
Disassortative mixing in online social networks
Haibo Hu, Xiaofan Wang
The conventional wisdom is that social networks exhibit an assortative mixing pattern, whereas biological and technological networks show a disassortative mixing pattern. However,…
Evolution of a large online social network
Haibo Hu, Xiaofan Wang
Although recently there are extensive research on the collaborative networks and online communities, there is very limited knowledge about the actual evolution of the online social…