%0 Journal Article %1 Gonzalez2006 %A González, Marta C. %A Lind, Pedro G. %A Herrmann, Hans J. %D 2006 %I American Physical Society %J Physical Review Letters %K emergence mobile-agents networks particle-systems self-assembly social-networks %N 8 %P 088702+ %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{Gonzalez2006, 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 = {2011-02-03T18:03:30.000+0100}, author = {González, Marta C. and Lind, Pedro G. and Herrmann, Hans J.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2eec5a2eb1e62dbe240fff54ae2ac42e9/rincedd}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.088702}, interhash = {1604727c095f7f80d7c348a7b2838f7b}, intrahash = {eec5a2eb1e62dbe240fff54ae2ac42e9}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, keywords = {emergence mobile-agents networks particle-systems self-assembly social-networks}, number = 8, pages = {088702+}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, timestamp = {2011-02-03T18:03:30.000+0100}, title = {System of Mobile Agents to Model Social Networks}, volume = 96, year = 2006 }