Observing the unwatchable: Integrating automated sensing, naturalistic observations and animal social network analysis in the age of big data

JE Smith, N Pinter‐Wollman - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the 4.5 decades since Altmann (1974) published her seminal paper on the methods for
the observational study of behaviour, automated detection and analysis of social interaction …

A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis

EA Hobson, MJ Silk, NH Fefferman… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Analysing social networks is challenging. Key features of relational data require the use of
non‐standard statistical methods such as develo** system‐specific null, or reference …

Temporal properties of higher-order interactions in social networks

G Cencetti, F Battiston, B Lepri, M Karsai - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Human social interactions in local settings can be experimentally detected by recording the
physical proximity and orientation of people. Such interactions, approximating face-to-face …

Higher-order temporal interactions promote the cooperation in the multiplayer snowdrift game

Y Xu, J Wang, C **a, Z Wang - Science China Information Sciences, 2023 - Springer
To explore evolutionary dynamics of collective behaviors within the interconnected
population, previous studies usually map non-pairwise interactions to higher-order static …

Aggression heuristics underlie animal dominance hierarchies and provide evidence of group-level social information

EA Hobson, D Mønster, S DeDeo - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - pnas.org
Members of a social species need to make appropriate decisions about who, how, and
when to interact with others in their group. However, it has been difficult for researchers to …

The temporal rich club phenomenon

N Pedreschi, D Battaglia, A Barrat - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Identifying the hidden organizational principles and relevant structures of complex networks
is fundamental to understand their properties. To this end, uncovering the structures …

Socioeconomic reorganization of communication and mobility networks in response to external shocks

L Napoli, V Sekara, M García-Herranz… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Socioeconomic segregation patterns in networks usually evolve gradually, yet they can
change abruptly in response to external shocks. The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the …

Temporal-topological properties of higher-order evolving networks

A Ceria, H Wang - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Human social interactions are typically recorded as time-specific dyadic interactions, and
represented as evolving (temporal) networks, where links are activated/deactivated over …

Compression-based inference of network motif sets

A Bénichou, JB Masson… - PLoS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Physical and functional constraints on biological networks lead to complex topological
patterns across multiple scales in their organization. A particular type of higher-order …

An embedding-based distance for temporal graphs

L Dall'Amico, A Barrat, C Cattuto - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Temporal graphs are commonly used to represent time-resolved relations between entities
in many natural and artificial systems. Many techniques were devised to investigate the …