Modeling Spatial Social Complex Networks for Dynamical Processes
Joint Authors
Wickramasinghe, Shandeepa
Onyerikwu, Onyekachukwu
Sun, Jie
ben-Avraham, D.
Source
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-02-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The study of social networks—where people are located, geographically, and how they might be connected to one another—is a current hot topic of interest, because of its immediate relevance to important applications, from devising efficient immunization techniques for the arrest of epidemics to the design of better transportation and city planning paradigms to the understanding of how rumors and opinions spread and take shape over time.
We develop a Spatial Social Complex Network (SSCN) model that captures not only essential connectivity features of real-life social networks, including a heavy-tailed degree distribution and high clustering, but also the spatial location of individuals, reproducing Zipf’s law for the distribution of city populations as well as other observed hallmarks.
We then simulate Milgram’s Small-World experiment on our SSCN model, obtaining good qualitative agreement with the known results and shedding light on the role played by various network attributes and the strategies used by the players in the game.
This demonstrates the potential of the SSCN model for the simulation and study of the many social processes mentioned above, where both connectivity and geography play a role in the dynamics.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Wickramasinghe, Shandeepa& Onyerikwu, Onyekachukwu& Sun, Jie& ben-Avraham, D.. 2018. Modeling Spatial Social Complex Networks for Dynamical Processes. Complexity،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-12.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Wickramasinghe, Shandeepa…[et al.]. Modeling Spatial Social Complex Networks for Dynamical Processes. Complexity No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-12.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Wickramasinghe, Shandeepa& Onyerikwu, Onyekachukwu& Sun, Jie& ben-Avraham, D.. Modeling Spatial Social Complex Networks for Dynamical Processes. Complexity. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1132850
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1132850