Stability in Flux - Group Dynamics in Adaptive Networks

From Facebook groups and online gaming clans, to social movements and terrorist cells, groups of individuals aligned by interest, values or background are of increasing interest to social network researchers (Snow et al., 1980; Zheleva et al., 2009). In particular, understanding the structural and dynamic factors that influence the evolution of these groups remains an open challenge (Palla et al., 2007; Geard and Bullock, 2008, 2010). Why do some groups persist and succeed, while others fail to do so?

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