@inproceedings{87e9ac8acef6462bb156bfae3c0d4602,
title = "In pursuit of social capital: Upgrading social circle through edge rewiring",
abstract = "The paper investigates the dynamics of the social circle of an individual in a social network. Updating social circle affects two kinds social assets: Bonding social capital which affects trusts and social support, and bridging social capital that determines information access. We address a rewiring process that enables the individual to upgrade her social circle. The questions are (1) what strategies would guide the individual to iteratively rewire social ties to gain bridging while maintain bonding social capital, and (2) what structural properties will arise as a result of applying the strategies. For the first problem, we put forward three greedy rewiring strategies based on scoping the network access for the individual. We conduct experiments over four random graph models and five real-world datasets to evaluate these strategies. The results reveal a striking difference between bonding and bridging social capitals, while the community-based strategy is able to achieve a balance between bridging with bonding social capital. For the second problem, we correlate social capital with structural features such as centrality and embeddedness. In this respect, the paper advances understanding to social capital and its connections to network structures.",
keywords = "Bonding and bridging, Community, Interpersonal ties, Social capital, Social network",
author = "Qian Chen and Hongyi Su and Jiamou Liu and Bo Yan and Hong Zheng and He Zhao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 3rd APWeb and WAIM Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2019 ; Conference date: 01-08-2019 Through 03-08-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-26072-9_15",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030260712",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "207--222",
editor = "Jie Shao and Yiu, {Man Lung} and Masashi Toyoda and Dongxiang Zhang and Wei Wang and Bin Cui",
booktitle = "Web and Big Data - 3rd International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2019, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}