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    • Social Network Analysis
    • Computational Social Science
    • Information Science

    Background:

    • Understanding social group formation and evolution is crucial for analyzing community dynamics and user behavior.
    • Existing measures of social group compactness primarily focus on member similarity, potentially overlooking other key factors.
    • Trust among members significantly influences group cohesion and individual participation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a novel quantitative measure of social group compactness that integrates both user similarity and mutual trustworthiness.
    • To develop an algorithm for optimizing this new measure of group compactness.
    • To empirically validate the proposed measure against traditional similarity-based approaches.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of a quantitative metric for group compactness considering similarity and trust.
    • Implementation of an optimization algorithm for the proposed compactness measure.
    • Empirical evaluation using real-world social network datasets (EPINIONS and CIAO).

    Main Results:

    • The proposed compactness measure, incorporating trustworthiness, demonstrates superior performance compared to similarity-only metrics.
    • Empirical results confirm the significant impact of trust on social group dynamics.
    • The new approach provides a more accurate understanding of how social groups form and evolve.

    Conclusions:

    • Mutual trustworthiness is a critical, yet often overlooked, factor in defining and measuring social group compactness.
    • The proposed trustworthiness-aware compactness measure offers a more comprehensive framework for social network analysis.
    • This research advances the understanding of community formation and user behavior in online social platforms.