Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

The structured backbone of temporal social ties

  • Teruyoshi Kobayashi,
  • Taro Takaguchi,
  • Alain Barrat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08160-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Complex networks can be useful to describe social interactions but for large datasets one needs to identify significant links to extract information. While most existing methods work for static networks, here the authors propose a method to extract the backbone of significant links in temporal networks.