NETWORKS AND OUR LIMITED INFORMATION HORIZON

DOI10.1142/S0218127407018580MaRDI QIDQ3511065zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Martin Rosvall, K. Sneppen

Publication date 4 July 2008

Published in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604036

zbMATH Keywords

self-organizationcommunicationnavigationComplex networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Communication theory (94A05)

Abstract: In this paper we quantify our limited information horizon, by measuring the information necessary to locate specific nodes in a network. To investigate different ways to overcome this horizon, and the interplay between communication and topology in social networks, we let agents communicate in a model society. Thereby they build a perception of the network that they can use to create strategic links to improve their standing in the network. We observe a narrow distribution of links when the communication is low and a network with a broad distribution of links when the communication is high.

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