Individual versus social benefit on heterogeneous networks.

Autor: Babaee Z; Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran., Bagherikalhor M; Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran 19839, Iran., Elyasizad L; Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran., Niry MD; Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran., Jafari GR; Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran 19839, Iran.; Irkutsk National Research Technical University, 664074 Lermontov Street, 83 Irkutsk, Russia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review. E [Phys Rev E] 2022 Apr; Vol. 105 (4-1), pp. 044307.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.044307
Abstrakt: The focus of structural balance theory is dedicated to social benefits, while in a real network individual benefits sometimes are the focus as well. The Strauss's model addresses individual benefits besides the social one with a simple assumption that all individual benefits are equivalent. Therefore, the results show that the competition between two terms leads to a phase transition between individual and social benefits and there is a critical point CP that represents a first-order phase transition in the network. Concerning a real network of relations, individuals adjust the strength of their relationships based on the benefits they acquire from them. Hence, by addressing heterogeneity in the individual interactions, we study a modified version of Strauss's model in which the first term represents the heterogeneous individual benefits by θ_{ij}, and the coefficient of the second term, α, measures the strength of social benefits. Our studies show that there is a region where the triangles are in a crumpled state rather than being dispersed in the network; furthermore, increasing the heterogeneity of individual benefits results in the narrower region of the crumpled state. Outside of the mentioned region, the network is a mixture of links and triangles and the value of α determines whether the individual benefit or social benefit dominates. For the small value of α, the individual benefit dominates, whereas in the large value of α, the social benefit dominates.
Databáze: MEDLINE