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Social Network Analysis in the last decade has gained remarkable attention. The current analysis focuses more and more on the dynamic behavior of them. The underlying structure from Social Networks, like facebook, or twitter, can change over time. Groups can be merged or single nodes can move from one group to another. But these phenomenas do not only occur in social networks but also in human brains. The research in neural spike trains also focuses on finding functional communities. These communities can change over time by switching the stimuli presented to the subject. In this paper we introduce a data generator to create such dynamic behavior, with effects in the interactions between nodes. We generate time stamps for events for one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-all relations. This data could be used to demonstrate the functionality of algorithms on such data, e.g. clustering or visualization algorithms. We demonstrated that the generated data fulfills common properties of social networks.
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Held, P., Dockhorn, A., Kruse, R. (2014). Generating Events for Dynamic Social Network Simulations. In: Laurent, A., Strauss, O., Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R.R. (eds) Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. IPMU 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 443. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08855-6_6
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