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Physical Theories of the Evolution of Online Social Networks: A Discussion Impulse

Authors:
Lutz Poessneck
Henning Hofmann
Ricardo Buettner

Keywords: online social networks; evolution; physical theories; interdisciplinary perspective

Abstract:
The evolution of online social networks (OSN) is a hot topic in computer science. Surprisingly a lot of research on this topic was also done by physicists – following the long history of studying networks in physics. To give an interdisciplinary discussion impulse, this paper intends to delineate the major physical theories of the evolution of (O)SN. Furthermore the paper presents a future research gap, which consists in the lack of adoption of the physical theory of preferential attachment on OSN by computer scientists.

Pages: 137 to 142

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: May 27, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-200-4

Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Dates: from May 27, 2012 to June 1, 2012