The dynamics of concepts in a homogeneous community (Q742737)
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The dynamics of concepts in a homogeneous community (English)
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19 September 2014
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Summary: The paper addresses informational interactions in a community and considers the dynamics of concepts that represent distribution of knowledge among the individuals. The evolution of a set of concepts maintained by a community is derived by the use of the concepts' significance in the communication between ``cognoscenti'' and ``dilettanti'' and of birth-death processes. The dynamics of concepts depend on the allocation of communication resources and can be governed by an informational principle that requires minimum self-information of the set of concepts over a time horizon. With respect to that principle, the introduction of a new concept into a community's disposal is shown to lead to a steady-state self-information, which is smaller than that before the introduction of the new concept.
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social networks
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communities
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information diffusion
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concepts' dynamics
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