Networks describe various complex natural systems including social systems. Recent studies have shown that these networks share some common properties. While studying complex systems, data collection phase is difficult for social networks compared to other networks such as the WWW, Internet, protein or linguistic networks. Many interesting social networks such as movie actors’ collaboration, sc...

We characterize the positional social preference correspondences (spc) satisfying qualified majority property for any given threshold. also spcs minimal property. next evaluate probability that Borda, plurality and antiplurality fulfil two aforementioned properties under Impartial Anonymous Culture assumption in presence of three four alternatives various sizes society. Our results show Borda s...

INTRODUCTION Impairments in social functioning are associated with an array of adverse outcomes. Social skills measures are commonly used by health professionals to assess and plan the treatment of social skills difficulties. There is a need to comprehensively evaluate the quality of psychometric properties reported across these measures to guide assessment and treatment planning. OBJECTIVE T...

Online networks can be construed as social networks in which people engage in interactions, build relationships, share information, and request and extend assistance to each other using electronic communication technologies. Is social capital embedded in online networks? How is such social capital mobilized (i.e., shared)? What structural properties of cyber networks are associated with mobiliz...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) are more and more establishing as one of the key means to create and enforce social relationships between individuals. While substantial results have been obtained in the anthropology literature describing the properties of human social networks (built “outside” the OSN world), a clear understanding of the properties of social networks built using OSNs is still to ...

Twitter is one of the most prominent Online Social Networks. It covers a significant part of the online worldwide population(~20%) and has impressive growth rates. The social graph of Twitter has been the subject of numerous studies since it can reveal the intrinsic properties of large and complex online communities. Despite the plethora of these studies, there is a limited cover on the propert...