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The Effects of Local and Global Link Creation Mechanisms on Contagion Processes Unfolding on Time-Varying Networks

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Social closeness and popularity are key ingredients that shape the emergence and evolution of social connections over time. Social closeness captures local reinforcement mechanisms which are behind the formation of strong ties and communities. Popularity, on the other hand, describes global link formation dynamics which drive, among other things, hubs, weak ties and bridges between groups. In this chapter, we characterize how these mechanisms affect spreading processes taking place on time-varying networks. We study contagion phenomena unfolding on a family of artificial temporal networks. In particular, we revise four different variations of activity-driven networks that capture (i) heterogeneity of activation patterns (ii) popularity (iii) the emergence of strong and weak ties iv) community structure. By means of analytical and numerical analyses we uncover a rich and process dependent phenomenology where the interplay between spreading phenomena and link formation mechanisms might either speed up or slow down the spreading.

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  1. MOBS Lab, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

    Kaiyuan Sun

  2. Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris, France

    Enrico Ubaldi

  3. Networks and Urban Systems Centre, University of Greenwich, London, UK

    Jie Zhang & Nicola Perra

  4. University of Lyon, Inria, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, LIP UMR 5668, 69007, Lyon, France

    Márton Karsai

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Sun, K., Ubaldi, E., Zhang, J., Karsai, M., Perra, N. (2023). The Effects of Local and Global Link Creation Mechanisms on Contagion Processes Unfolding on Time-Varying Networks. In: Holme, P., Saramäki, J. (eds) Temporal Network Theory. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30399-9_16

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