Model of mobile agents for sexual interactions networks

The European Physical Journal B - Tập 49 - Trang 371-376 - 2006
M. C. González1, P. G. Lind1,2, H. J. Herrmann1,3
1Institute for Computational Physics, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2, Lisbon, Portugal
3Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Tóm tắt

We present a novel model to simulate real social networks of complex interactions, based in a system of colliding particles (agents). The network is build by keeping track of the collisions and evolves in time with correlations which emerge due to the mobility of the agents. Therefore, statistical features are a consequence only of local collisions among its individual agents. Agent dynamics is realized by an event-driven algorithm of collisions where energy is gained as opposed to physical systems which have dissipation. The model reproduces empirical data from networks of sexual interactions, not previously obtained with other approaches.

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