Representing Dynamic Social Networks in Discrete Event Social Simulation
Abstract
One of the key structural components of social systems is the social network. The representation of
this network structure is key to providing a valid representation of the society under study. The social
science concept of homophily provides a conceptual model of how social networks are formed and evolve
over time. Previous work described the results of social simulation using a static homophily network. In
order to gain the full benefit of modeling societies a representation of how the social network changes
over time is required. This paper introduces the implementation of a dynamic homophily network, along
with a case study exploring the sensitivity of model outputs to the parameters describing the network and
applying social network change detection methods (SNCD) to model output.
Description
Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference B. Johansson, S. Jain, J. Montoya-Torres, J. Hugan, and E. Yücesan, eds.
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