Social balance in signed networks

X Zheng, D Zeng, FY Wang - Information Systems Frontiers, 2015 - Springer
The theory of social balance, also called structural balance, is first proposed by Heider in
1940s, which is utilized to describe the potential social dynamics process. This theory is of …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptomics unveils gene regulatory network plasticity

G Iacono, R Massoni-Badosa, H Heyn - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) plays a pivotal role in our
understanding of cellular heterogeneity. Current analytical workflows are driven by …

Computing global structural balance in large-scale signed social networks

G Facchetti, G Iacono, C Altafini - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Structural balance theory affirms that signed social networks (ie, graphs whose signed
edges represent friendly/hostile interactions among individuals) tend to be organized so as …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of opinion forming in structurally balanced social networks

C Altafini - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
A structurally balanced social network is a social community that splits into two antagonistic
factions (typical example being a two-party political system). The process of opinion forming …

Predictable dynamics of opinion forming for networks with antagonistic interactions

C Altafini, G Lini - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For communities of agents which are not necessarily cooperating, distributed processes of
opinion forming are naturally represented by signed graphs, with positive edges …

Measuring partial balance in signed networks

S Aref, MC Wilson - Journal of Complex Networks, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Is the enemy of an enemy necessarily a friend? If not, to what extent does this tend to hold?
Such questions were formulated in terms of signed (social) networks and necessary and …

Balance and frustration in signed networks

S Aref, MC Wilson - Journal of Complex Networks, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The frustration index is a key measure for analysing signed networks, which has been
underused due to its computational complexity. We use an exact optimization-based method …

[HTML][HTML] Multilevel structural evaluation of signed directed social networks based on balance theory

S Aref, L Dinh, R Rezapour, J Diesner - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Balance theory explains how network structural configurations relate to tension in social
systems, which are commonly modeled as static undirected signed graphs. We expand this …

Evidence of structural balance in spatial ecological networks

H Saiz, J Gómez‐Gardeñes, P Nuche, A Girón… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Despite recent advances in applying networks to study ecological systems, most of the
network datasets are built attending only to a single type of interaction between nodes …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying hidden coalitions in the US House of Representatives by optimally partitioning signed networks based on generalized balance

S Aref, ZP Neal - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
In network science, identifying optimal partitions of a signed network into internally cohesive
and mutually divisive clusters based on generalized balance theory is computationally …