How can we understand the interaction between the social network topology of a population and the patterns of group affiliation in that population? Each aspect influences the other: social networks provide the conduits via which groups recruit new members, and groups provide the context in which new social ties are formed. While many social simulation models exhibit group formation as a part of...

Abstract Social networks, as well as many other real-world networks, exhibit overlapping community structure. Affiliation networks, as a large portion of social networks, consist of cooperative individuals: Two individuals are connected by a link if they belong to the same organization(s), such as companies, research groups and hobby clubs. Affiliation networks naturally contain many fully conn...

There are typographical errors in the author affiliations: 1. Affiliation number 3: Division of Nutrition, St John’s Research Institute, Bangalore, Maharashtra, India. should be: Division of Nutrition, St John’s Research Institute, Bengalaru, Karnataka, India 2. Affiliation number 5: Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey, Women’s University (SNDT), Mumb...

Title of dissertation: PREDICTION, EVOLUTION AND PRIVACY IN SOCIAL AND AFFILIATION NETWORKS Elena Zheleva, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Dissertation directed by: Professor Lise Getoor Department of Computer Science In the last few years, there has been a growing interest in studying online social and affiliation networks, leading to a new category of inference problems that consider the actor cha...

We explore the applicability of the current socio-ecological model to characterize the social structure of Colobus vellerosus, a folivorous primate. The current socio-ecological model predicts that female social relationships should respond in predictable ways to food abundance and distribution and associated competitive regimes. It appears to successfully explain variation in social structure ...