Computer Science – Social and Information Networks
Scientific paper
2012-03-06
Computer Science
Social and Information Networks
9 pages, 8 figures. This paper will be published in Social Network Analysis and Mining(www.springerlink.com)
Scientific paper
10.1007/s13278-012-0048-x
Most research concerning the influence of network structure on phenomena taking place on the network focus on relationships between global statistics of the network structure and characteristic properties of those phenomena, even though local structure has a significant effect on the dynamics of some phenomena. In the present paper, we propose a new analysis method for phenomena on networks based on a categorization of nodes. First, local statistics such as the average path length and the clustering coefficient for a node are calculated and assigned to the respective node. Then, the nodes are categorized using the self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm. Characteristic properties of the phenomena of interest are visualized for each category of nodes. The validity of our method is demonstrated using the results of two simulation models. The proposed method is useful as a research tool to understand the behavior of networks, in particular, for the large-scale networks that existing visualization techniques cannot work well.
Shirayama Susumu
Yuasa Tomoyuki
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