A system of mobile agents to model social networks Export

@article{citeulike:549106, abstract = {We propose a model of mobile agents to construct social networks, based on a system of moving particles by keeping track of the collisions during their permanence in the system. We reproduce not only the degree distribution, clustering coefficient and shortest path length of a large data base of empirical friendship networks recently collected, but also some features related with their community structure. The model is completely characterized by the collision rate and above a critical collision rate we find the emergence of a giant cluster in the universality class of two-dimensional percolation. Moreover, we propose possible schemes to reproduce other networks of particular social contacts, namely sexual contacts.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Gonzalez, M. C. and Lind, P. G. and Herrmann, H. J.}, citeulike-article-id = {549106}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602091}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0602091}, comment = {Featured by PhysOrg.com.}, day = {14}, eprint = {physics/0602091}, keywords = {complex\_systems, social\_network}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2006-03-12 18:11:53}, priority = {3}, title = {A system of mobile agents to model social networks}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602091}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:549106 L3 - citeulike-article-id:549106 N2 - We propose a model of mobile agents to construct social networks, based on a system of moving particles by keeping track of the collisions during their permanence in the system. We reproduce not only the degree distribution, clustering coefficient and shortest path length of a large data base of empirical friendship networks recently collected, but also some features related with their community structure. The model is completely characterized by the collision rate and above a critical collision rate we find the emergence of a giant cluster in the universality class of two-dimensional percolation. Moreover, we propose possible schemes to reproduce other networks of particular social contacts, namely sexual contacts. TI - A system of mobile agents to model social networks KW - complex_systems KW - social_network N1 - Featured by PhysOrg.com. AU - Gonzalez, MC AU - Lind, PG AU - Herrmann, HJ PY - 2006/Feb/14/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602091 ER -