Abstract
In agent-based social simulation, agents engage into several concomitant relations, forming social networks. In these several networks, agents are immersed in contexts, in which they contact more often with some agents than with others. Moreover, for the complex cases involved in social simulation, most of these networks will be multi-modal, comprehending networks of agents which form themselves other networks, and so forth successively, including self-organised and institutional aggregates. We have proposed the concept of permeability between contexts, and have showed how in certain conditions the explicit representation of these multiple relations can enhance the dissemination of phenomena in an important feature for the analysis of the complex dynamical behaviour of the networks. In this paper, we further explore this research by considering the concepts involved in the representation of these complex social descriptions, and other related concepts, such as roles. We compare the results of previous simulations with a variation of the consensus game, and conclude that the permeability between contexts in different relations can greatly enhance the dissemination of phenomena throughout the society, allowing to explore rich informational and dynamical content of the networks.
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Antunes, L., Balsa, J., Urbano, P., Coelho, H. (2010). Exploring Context Permeability in Multiple Social Networks. In: Takadama, K., Cioffi-Revilla, C., Deffuant, G. (eds) Simulating Interacting Agents and Social Phenomena. Agent-Based Social Systems, vol 7. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-99781-8_6
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