Self-organization leads to hierarchical modularity in an Internet community
J. Hallinan. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Pt 1, Proceedings, (2003)PT: S; PG: 7.
Abstract
Many naturally-occurring networks share topological characteristics such as scale-free connectivity and a modular organization. It has recently been suggested that a hierarchically modular organization may be another such ubiquitous characteristic. In this paper we introduce a coherence metric for the quantification of structural modularity, and use this metric to demonstrate that a self-organized social network derived from Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel interactions exhibits measurable hierarchical modularity, reflecting an underlying hierarchical neighbourhood structure in the social network.
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%A Hallinan, J.
%D 2003
%J Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Pt 1, Proceedings
%K NETWORKS; WEB
%P 914-920
%T Self-organization leads to hierarchical modularity in an Internet community
%V 2773
%X Many naturally-occurring networks share topological characteristics such as scale-free connectivity and a modular organization. It has recently been suggested that a hierarchically modular organization may be another such ubiquitous characteristic. In this paper we introduce a coherence metric for the quantification of structural modularity, and use this metric to demonstrate that a self-organized social network derived from Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel interactions exhibits measurable hierarchical modularity, reflecting an underlying hierarchical neighbourhood structure in the social network.
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title = {Self-organization leads to hierarchical modularity in an Internet community},
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year = 2003
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