%0 Generic %1 citeulike:549106 %A Gonzalez, M. C. %A Lind, P. G. %A Herrmann, H. J. %D 2006 %K agents social eni mobile dtl multiagent enidtl pysics networks %T A system of mobile agents to model social networks %U http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602091 %X 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.

@misc{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.}, added-at = {2006-03-13T13:00:29.000+0100}, author = {Gonzalez, M. C. and Lind, P. G. and Herrmann, H. J.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2259ebc2aa6f57d59d7a08606467bc035/yish}, citeulike-article-id = {549106}, eprint = {physics/0602091}, interhash = {0c618ef77f56861aebb6eea33e62ff4a}, intrahash = {259ebc2aa6f57d59d7a08606467bc035}, keywords = {agents social eni mobile dtl multiagent enidtl pysics networks}, month = Feb, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2006-03-13T13:00:29.000+0100}, title = {A system of mobile agents to model social networks}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602091}, year = 2006 }