Title: Similarity forces and recurrent components in human face-to-face interaction networks,
Abstract: We show that the social dynamics responsible for the formation of connected
components that appear recurrently in face-to-face interaction networks, find a
natural explanation in the assumption that the agents of the temporal network
reside in a hidden similarity space. Distances between the agents in this space
act as similarity forces directing their motion towards other agents in the
physical space and determining the duration of their interactions. By contrast,
if such forces are ignored in the motion of the agents recurrent components do
not form, although other main properties of such networks can still be
reproduced.