Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents

  • Yuan Yuan,
  • Ahmad Alabdulkareem,
  • Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07089-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Complex networks can be a useful tool to investigate problems in social science. Here the authors use game theory to establish a network model and then use a machine learning approach to characterize the role of nodes within a social network.