標題: | Effects of friend-making resources/costs and remembering on acquaintance networks |
作者: | Huang, Chung-Yuan Tsai, Yu-Shiuan 資訊工程學系 Department of Computer Science |
關鍵字: | Acquaintance networks;Social networks;Small-world phenomenon;Network-oriented simulations |
公開日期: | 1-二月-2010 |
摘要: | We consider two overlooked yet important factors that affect acquaintance network evolution and formation-friend-making resources and remembering-and propose a bottom-up, network-oriented simulation model based on three rules representing human social interactions. Our proposed model reproduces many topological features of real-world acquaintance networks, including a small-world phenomenon and a sharply peaked connectivity distribution feature that mixes power-law and exponential distribution types. We believe that this is an improvement over fieldwork sampling methods that fail to capture acquaintance network node connectivity distributions. Our model may produce valuable results for sociologists working with social opinion formation and epidemiologists studying epidemic dynamics. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
URI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2009.09.038 http://hdl.handle.net/11536/5937 |
ISSN: | 0378-4371 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.physa.2009.09.038 |
期刊: | PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS |
Volume: | 389 |
Issue: | 3 |
起始頁: | 604 |
結束頁: | 622 |
顯示於類別: | 期刊論文 |