Name
Title | ||
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Model reproduces individual, group and collective dynamics of human contact networks. |
Abstract | ||
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Empirical data on the dynamics of human face-to-face interactions across a variety of social venues have recently revealed a number of context-independent structural and temporal properties of human contact networks. This universality suggests that some basic mechanisms may be responsible for the unfolding of human interactions in the physical space. Here we discuss a simple model that reproduces the empirical distributions for the individual, group and collective dynamics of face-to-face contact networks. The model describes agents that move randomly in a two-dimensional space and tend to stop when meeting 'attractive' peers, and reproduces accurately the empirical distributions. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2014 | 10.1016/j.socnet.2016.06.002 | Social Networks |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Human contact networks,Face-to-face interactions,Time-varying social networks,Modeling | Social psychology,Psychology,Human dynamics,Physical space,Universality (philosophy) | Journal |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
47 | 0378-8733 | 6 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.52 | 19 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michele Starnini | 1 | 38 | 5.61 |
| Andrea Baronchelli | 2 | 465 | 45.58 |
| Romualdo Pastor-Satorras | 3 | 332 | 31.58 |