Title
The Spread of Ideas in a Network-The Garbage-Can Model
Abstract
The main goal of our work is to show how ideas change in social networks. Our analysis is based on three concepts: (i) temporal networks, (ii) the Axelrod model of culture dissemination, (iii) the garbage can model of organizational choice. The use of the concept of temporal networks allows us to show the dynamics of ideas spreading processes in networks, thanks to the analysis of contacts between agents in networks. The Axelrod culture dissemination model allows us to use the importance of cooperative behavior for the dynamics of ideas disseminated in networks. In the third model decisions on solutions of problems are made as an outcome of sequences of pseudorandom numbers. The origin of this model is the Herbert Simon's view on bounded rationality. In the Axelrod model, ideas are conveyed by strings of symbols. The outcome of the model should be the diversity of evolving ideas as dependent on the chain length, on the number of possible values of symbols and on the threshold value of Hamming distance which enables the combination.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/e23101345
ENTROPY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
garbage can model, Axelrod model, evolving ideas
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1099-4300
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dorota Żuchowska-Skiba111.02
Maria Stojkow200.34
M. J. Krawczyk322.79
Krzysztof Kułakowski43713.14