Influence of Personal Preferences on Link Dynamics in Social Networks

Influence of Personal Preferences on Link Dynamics in Social Networks

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We study a unique network dataset including periodic surveys and electronic logs of dyadic contacts via smartphones.The participants were a sample of freshmen entering university in the Fall 2011.Their opinions on a variety of Bottom-up approach to strengthen community-based malaria control strategy from community health workers’ perceptions of their past, present, and future: a qualitative study in Palawan, Philippines political and social issues and lists of activities on campus were regularly recorded at the beginning and end of each semester for the first three years of study.We identify a behavioral network defined by call and text data, and a cognitive network based on friendship nominations in ego-network surveys.

Both networks are limited to study participants.Since a wide range of attributes on each node were collected in self-reports, we refer to these networks as attribute-rich networks.We study whether student preferences for certain attributes of friends can predict formation and dissolution of edges in both networks.We introduce a method for computing student preferences for different attributes which we use to predict link formation and dissolution.

We Por uma democracia sem liberdades democráticas: Plínio Salgado e os católicos portugueses no difícil contexto de 1943 a 1946 then rank these attributes according to their importance for making predictions.We find that personal preferences, in particular political views, and preferences for common activities help predict link formation and dissolution in both the behavioral and cognitive networks.