YU OHKI
   Department   Department of Data Science, Faculty of Data Science
   Position   Assistant Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2023/03/15
Type
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Community Structure and Its Stability on a Face-to-Face Interaction Network in Kyoto City
Contribution Type
Journal Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Publisher Physical Society of Japan
Volume, Issue, Page 92(3)
Authorship Lead author,Corresponding author
Author and coauthor Yu Ohki,Hitomi Tanaka,Yuichi Ikeda
Details As social behavior plays an essential role in people's lives, the features of face-to-face interaction networks must be examined to understand people's social behavior. In this study, we focused on the stable community structure of a face-to-face interaction network because it explains the persistent communities caused by the stationary communication patterns of citizens and visitors in a city. We regarded citizens and visitors as two kinds of particles and the community as a phase and theorized the stability of the community structure using the equilibrium conditions among communities. We formulated the chemical potentials of the communities and examined whether they were in equilibrium under the assumption of a canonical ensemble. We estimated the chemical potentials of persistent communities and found that these values matched within approximately 10% error for each day. This result indicates that the cause of persistent communities is the stability of community structure.
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