The era of globalization is the era of connectedness. This reality represents an increasingly troubling challenge to traditional theories and models of social systems, which assume the independence of individuals from their broader social milieu. Going be
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Title: Finding community structure in networks using the eigenvectors of matrices
Authors: M. E. J. Newman
Comments: 22 pages, 8 figures, minor corrections in this version
Subj-class: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability; Physics and Society; Statistical Mechanics
Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 74, 036104 (2006)
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