Title Algorithms and Dynamical Models for Communities and Reputation in Social Networks Author(s) Traag, Vincent Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2014. Description XIV, 229 p. 40 illus., 19 illus. in color : online resource Abstract Note A persistent problem when finding communities in large complex networks is the so-called resolution limit. This thesis addresses this issue meticulously, and introduces the important notion of resolution-limit-free. Remarkably, only few methods possess this desirable property, and this thesis puts forward one such method. Moreover, it discusses how to asses whether communities can occur by chance or not. One aspect that is often ignored in this field is treated here: links can also be negative, as in war or conflict. Besides how to incorporate this in community detection, it also examines the dynamics of such negative links, inspired by a sociological theory known as social balance. This has intriguing connections to the evolution of cooperation, suggesting that for cooperation to emerge, groups often split in two opposing factions. In addition to these theoretical contributions, the thesis also contains an empirical analysis of the effect of trading communities on international conflict, and how communities form in a citation network with positive and negative links ISBN,Price 9783319063911 Keyword(s) 1. Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks 2. EBOOK 3. EBOOK - SPRINGER 4. Economic sociology 5. GAME THEORY 6. Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences 7. MATHEMATICS 8. Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences 9. Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology 10. PHYSICS 11. SOCIAL SCIENCES Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I08012     On Shelf