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September  2012, 7(3): 363-371. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2012.7.363

Serendipity in social networks

Werner Creixell 1, , Juan Carlos Losada 2, , Tomás Arredondo 1, , Patricio Olivares 3, and  Rosa María Benito 4,

1. 

Departamento de Electrónica, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Av. España 1680, Valparaíso, Chile, Chile
2. 

Grupo de Sistemas Complejos, Departamento de Física, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
3. 

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Av. España 1680, Valparaíso, Chile
4. 

Grupo de Sistemas Complejos and Departamento de Fisica y Mecanica, E.T.S.I. Agrónomos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Received  December 2011 Revised  June 2012 Published  October 2012

Serendipity is defined as fortunate discoveries made by chance. In this work we explore the idea that topological measures of a person's social network could be an indicator about how likely that person is to experience fortunate discoveries.
Keywords: cellphone, complex networks, Serendipity, social networks, clustering..
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 58F15, 58F17; Secondary: 53C3.
Citation: Werner Creixell, Juan Carlos Losada, Tomás Arredondo, Patricio Olivares, Rosa María Benito. Serendipity in social networks. Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2012, 7 (3) : 363-371. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2012.7.363
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Reka Albert and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Statistical mechanics of complex networks, Rev. Mod. Phys., 47 (2002), 47-97. doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.74.47.

[2]

A. Barrat, M. Barthélemy, R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani, The architecture of complex weighted networks, PNAS, 101 (2004), 3747-3752. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400087101.

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N. Eagle and A. Pentland, Reality mining: Sensing complex social systems, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 10 (2006), 255-268. doi: 10.1007/s00779-005-0046-3.

[4]

W. Gauvin, C. Chen, Fu Xinwen and L. Benyuan, Classification of commercial and personal profiles on MySpace, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 21-25 March (2011), 276-281. doi: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766883.

[5]

Feiyu Lian, Qing Li, Maixia Fu and Yuhan Zang, A study on a general model of information fusion networks, Pacific-Asia Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Application PACIIA'08, 2008, 579-584.

[6]

M. E. J. Newman, The structure and functions of complex networks, SIAM Review 2, 45 (2003), 167-256. doi: 10.1137/S003614450342480.

[7]

M. E. J Newman, A.-L. Barabási and D. Watts, "The Structure and Dynamics of Networks," Princeton University Press, 2006.

[8]

A. Pentland, N. Eagle and D. Lazer, Inferring social networks structure using mobile phone data, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 106 (2009), 15274-15278. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0900282106.

[9]

Rawn Shah, "Serendipity Lies at the Heart of Business Relationships," Forbes November, 2010

[10]

Pontus Svenson, "Complex Networks and Social Network Analysis in Information Fusion," 9th International Conference on Information Fusion, (2006) 17pp. doi: 10.1109/ICIF.2006.301554.

[11]

K. Stepanyan, K. Borau and C. Ullrich, "A Social Network Analysis Perspective on Student Interaction within the Twitter Microblogging Environment," IEEE 10th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), (2010), 70-72. doi: 10.1109/ICALT.2010.27.

[12]

Steven Strogatz, Exploring complex networks, Nature, 410 (2001), 268-276. doi: 10.1038/35065725.

[13]

D. J. Watts and S. H. Strogatz, Collective dynamics of small-world networks, Nature, 393 (1998), 440-442. doi: 10.1038/30918.

[14]

, In search of serendipity, Success in business increasingly depends on chance encounters,, The Economist, (2010). 

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