Mesoscopic Structure Conditions the Emergence of Cooperation on Social Networks

Sergi Lozano; Alex Arenas; Angel Sánchez

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001892

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Mesoscopic Structure Conditions the Emergence of Cooperation on Social Networks

Sergi Lozano ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: slozano@ethz.ch

Affiliation ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
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Alex Arenas,

Affiliations Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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Angel Sánchez

Affiliations Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC), Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain, IMDEA Matemáticas, Campus de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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Mesoscopic Structure Conditions the Emergence of Cooperation on Social Networks

Sergi Lozano,
Alex Arenas,
Angel Sánchez

Published: April 2, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001892

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Posted by cuesta on 28 Apr 2008 at 09:22 GMT

What I believe is the most relevant contibution of this article is to illustrate that the dynamic behavior in a network depends crucially on its community structure and that typical parameters commonly employed to characterize networks may be unable to distinguish between lattices with different global behavior. This is an important step in our understanding of complex networks.

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