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In signed social networks, minimum memory adjustment rules help achieve global balance. This finding is crucial for managing large networks with limited resources.

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  • Complex systems science
  • Network theory

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  • Social networks feature positive and negative relations, where individuals adjust links under structural balance stress.
  • Real-world adjustments are local, considering immediate neighborhoods or key neighbors, potentially limited by memory.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how limited memory affects the convergence and structural balance of signed social networks.
  • To compare random and minimum memory-based sign adjustment rules.

Main Methods:

  • Introduction of a signed social network model.
  • Proposal and analysis of random and minimum memory-based sign adjustment rules.
  • Examination of factors like initial positive link ratio, rewiring probability, network size, and neighbor number.

Main Results:

  • Increased rewiring probability and neighbor number enhance global balance under minimum memory adjustment.
  • Dense Newmann-Watts small world networks paradoxically achieve global balance even with minimum memory local adjustments, irrespective of network size or initial positive link ratio.

Conclusions:

  • Minimum memory-based local adjustments can effectively drive large, dense signed social networks towards global balance.
  • Findings offer insights for managing and controlling extensive networks efficiently with constrained resources.