Modularity, balance, and frustration in student social networks: The role of negative relationships in communities.

ABSTRACT: Signed networks provide information to study the structure and composition of relationships (positive and negative) among individuals in a complex system. Individuals, through different criteria, form groups or organizations called communities. Community structures are one of the important properties of social networks. In this work, we aim to analyze the perturbation of negative relationships in communities. We developed a methodology to obtain and analyze the optimal community partitions in nine school networks in the state of Yucatán, México. We implemented a technique based on the social balance theory in signed networks to complete negative missing links and further applied two methods of community detection: Newman's and Louvain's algorithms. We obtain values close to Dunbar's ratio

SUBMITTER: Brito-Montes J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9731467 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature