Microscopic Analysis of Edge Creation Process in Trust-based Social Networks

In last years, online social networks are enjoying drastic in- crease in their population and connectivity. Meanwhile, trust is known as essential factor in quality of the connections between diverse nodes in the network. To address the e-ciency in the interactions of nodes, we propose in this paper a trust-based architecture applicable to maintain interactions in multi-agent-based social network. We provide a detailed discussion over the network formation by taking into account the edge creation factors classifled as homophily, confounding and in∞uence. We systematically inspire difierent involving factors to observe evolution of the network of trust-based interconnections in a microscopic manner. We also provide a theoretical analysis of the proposed model assessment and discuss the system implementation, along with simulations obtained from a number of executions compared with the broadly known frameworks. General Terms. Human Factors, Measurement, Experimentation. Keywords. Trust establishment , Edge Creation, Multi-Agent Systems, Agent Communication, Social Networks.