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Simulating the Dynamics of Social Networks

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This paper presents a theoretical model and a platform that allow to describe individual and collective recurrent patterns of behaviour, called respectively roles and organizations, and let agents dynamically choose to create, join or quit groups instanciating these patterns at execution time.

For an in-depth discussion about the necessity of including the methodological collectivism approaches (defended by R. Conte, S. Moss and B. Edmonds) and thus the modeling of social-scale phenomena in MABS see [11].

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  1. Institut d’Informatique et d’Intelligence Artificielle, Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse

    Matthieu Amiguet, José-A. Baez-Barranco & Adina Nagy

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Amiguet, M., Müller, JP., Baez-Barranco, JA., Nagy, A. (2003). The MOCA Platform. In: Simão Sichman, J., Bousquet, F., Davidsson, P. (eds) Multi-Agent-Based Simulation II. MABS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2581. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36483-8_6

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