Weak Ties Are Surprising Everywhere

Iaakov Exman, Asaf Yosef, Omer Ganon

2020

Abstract

Weak ties between people have been known as surprisingly effective to successfully achieve practical goals, such as getting a job. However, weak ties were often assumed to correlate with topological distance in virtual social networks. The unexpected novelty of this paper is that weak ties are surprisingly everywhere, independently of topological distance. This is shown by modelling luck with reference to a target task, as a composition of a surprise function expressing weak ties and a target relevance function expressing strong ties between people. The model enables an automatic luck generation software tool, to support target tasks mainly by the surprise function. The main result is obtained by superposing the luck model upon network topological maps of customer relationships to its followers in any chosen social network. The result is validated by surprise Keyword Clouds of customer followers and Keyword Frequencies for diverse followers. Results are illustrated by a variety of graphs calculated for specific customers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Exman I., Yosef A. and Ganon O. (2020). Weak Ties Are Surprising Everywhere. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 1: KDIR; ISBN 978-989-758-474-9, SciTePress, pages 218-226. DOI: 10.5220/0010117202180226

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir20,
author={Iaakov Exman and Asaf Yosef and Omer Ganon},
title={Weak Ties Are Surprising Everywhere},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 1: KDIR},
year={2020},
pages={218-226},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010117202180226},
isbn={978-989-758-474-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 1: KDIR
TI - Weak Ties Are Surprising Everywhere
SN - 978-989-758-474-9
AU - Exman I.
AU - Yosef A.
AU - Ganon O.
PY - 2020
SP - 218
EP - 226
DO - 10.5220/0010117202180226
PB - SciTePress