%0 Journal Article %1 WOS:000235736200083 %A Gonzalez, MC %A Lind, PG %A Herrmann, HJ %C ONE PHYSICS ELLIPSE, COLLEGE PK, MD 20740-3844 USA %D 2006 %I AMER PHYSICAL SOC %J PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS %K imported %N 8 %R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.088702 %T System of mobile agents to model social networks %V 96 %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 database 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.

@article{WOS:000235736200083, 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 database 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 = {2022-05-23T20:00:14.000+0200}, address = {ONE PHYSICS ELLIPSE, COLLEGE PK, MD 20740-3844 USA}, author = {Gonzalez, MC and Lind, PG and Herrmann, HJ}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a6824cf5336c57ed2fde52c02371907a/ppgfis_ufc_br}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.088702}, interhash = {cc1cdad56cb0786f99e8f0363cd2b020}, intrahash = {a6824cf5336c57ed2fde52c02371907a}, issn = {0031-9007}, journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS}, keywords = {imported}, number = 8, publisher = {AMER PHYSICAL SOC}, pubstate = {published}, timestamp = {2022-05-23T20:00:14.000+0200}, title = {System of mobile agents to model social networks}, tppubtype = {article}, volume = 96, year = 2006 }