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Individual Choices in Dynamic Networks

Author : Dennie van Dolder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Individual Choices in Dynamic Networks written by Dennie van Dolder and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game-theoretic models of network formation typically assume that people create relations so as to maximize their own outcome in the network. Recent experiments on network formation suggest that the assumption of self-interest might be unwarranted and that social preferences, such as altruism and inequality aversion, play a role in the formation of social networks. We developed an experiment to systematically investigate whether people show preferences for outcomes of others during network formation. We find that such preferences play a role when network decisions degenerate to simple two-person decision tasks. In more complex environments, however, we find little evidence for social preferences as a significant decision criterion. Furthermore, we find some evidence for farsighted behavior in network formation.

Dynamic Network Flows with Adaptive Route Choice based on Current Information

Author : Lukas Graf
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658449489
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (584 download)

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Book Synopsis Dynamic Network Flows with Adaptive Route Choice based on Current Information by : Lukas Graf

Download or read book Dynamic Network Flows with Adaptive Route Choice based on Current Information written by Lukas Graf and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-evolution of Networks and Behavior in Social Dilemmas

Author : Rense Corten
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118636872
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Book Synopsis Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-evolution of Networks and Behavior in Social Dilemmas by : Rense Corten

Download or read book Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-evolution of Networks and Behavior in Social Dilemmas written by Rense Corten and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-evolution of Networks and Behaviour in Social Dilemmas shows students, researchers, and professionals how to use computation methods, rather than mathematical analysis, to answer research questions for an easier, more productive method of testing their models. Illustrations of general methodology are provided and explore how computer simulation is used to bridge the gap between formal theoretical models and empirical applications.

Agent-Based Modeling and Network Dynamics

Author : Akira Namatame
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191074993
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Agent-Based Modeling and Network Dynamics by : Akira Namatame

Download or read book Agent-Based Modeling and Network Dynamics written by Akira Namatame and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the significance of networks in various human behavior and activities has a history as long as human's existence, network awareness is a recent scientific phenomenon. The neologism network science is just one or two decades old. Nevertheless, with this limited time, network thinking has substantially reshaped the recent development in economics, and almost all solutions to real-world problems involve the network element. This book integrates agent-based modeling and network science. It is divided into three parts, namely, foundations, primary dynamics on and of social networks, and applications. The authors begin with the network origin of agent-based models, known as cellular automata, and introduce a number of classic models, such as Schelling's segregation model and Axelrod's spatial game. The essence of the foundation part is the network-based agent-based models in which agents follow network-based decision rules. Under the influence of the substantial progress in network science in late 1990s, these models have been extended from using lattices into using small-world networks, scale-free networks, etc. The text also shows that the modern network science mainly driven by game-theorists and sociophysicists has inspired agent-based social scientists to develop alternative formation algorithms, known as agent-based social networks. It reviews a number of pioneering and representative models in this family. Upon the given foundation, the second part reviews three primary forms of network dynamics, such as diffusions, cascades, and influences. These primary dynamics are further extended and enriched by practical networks in goods-and-service markets, labor markets, and international trade. At the end, the book considers two challenging issues using agent-based models of networks: network risks and economic growth.

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks

Author : Yann Bramoullé
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199948283
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks by : Yann Bramoullé

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks written by Yann Bramoullé and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks represents the frontier of research into how and why networks they form, how they influence behavior, how they help govern outcomes in an interactive world, and how they shape collective decision making, opinion formation, and diffusion dynamics. From a methodological perspective, the contributors to this volume devote attention to theory, field experiments, laboratory experiments, and econometrics. Theoretical work in network formation, games played on networks, repeated games, and the interaction between linking and behavior is synthesized. A number of chapters are devoted to studying social process mediated by networks. Topics here include opinion formation, diffusion of information and disease, and learning. There are also chapters devoted to financial contagion and systemic risk, motivated in part by the recent financial crises. Another section discusses communities, with applications including social trust, favor exchange, and social collateral; the importance of communities for migration patterns; and the role that networks and communities play in the labor market. A prominent role of networks, from an economic perspective, is that they mediate trade. Several chapters cover bilateral trade in networks, strategic intermediation, and the role of networks in international trade. Contributions discuss as well the role of networks for organizations. On the one hand, one chapter discusses the role of networks for the performance of organizations, while two other chapters discuss managing networks of consumers and pricing in the presence of network-based spillovers. Finally, the authors discuss the internet as a network with attention to the issue of net neutrality.

Handbook of Social Economics SET: 1A, 1B

Author : Jess Benhabib
Publisher : Newnes
ISBN 13 : 0444537139
Total Pages : 1509 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Social Economics SET: 1A, 1B by : Jess Benhabib

Download or read book Handbook of Social Economics SET: 1A, 1B written by Jess Benhabib and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can economists define and measure social preferences and interactions? Through the use of new economic data and tools, our contributors survey an array of social interactions and decisions that typify homo economicus. Identifying economic strains in activities such as learning, group formation, discrimination, and the creation of peer dynamics, they demonstrate how they tease out social preferences from the influences of culture, familial beliefs, religion, and other forces. Advances our understanding about quantifying social interactions and the effects of culture Summarizes research on theoretical and applied economic analyses of social preferences Explores the recent willingness among economists to consider new arguments in the utility function

The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research

Author : Rafael Wittek
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804785503
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research written by Rafael Wittek and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology. Taking on issues ranging from financial markets and terrorism to immigration, race relations, and emotions, and a huge variety of other phenomena, rational choice proves a useful tool for theory- driven social research. Each chapter uses a rational choice framework to elaborate on testable hypotheses and then apply this to empirical research, including experimental research, survey studies, ethnographies, and historical investigations. Useful to students and scholars across the social sciences, this handbook will reinvigorate discussions about the utility and versatility of the rational choice approach, its key assumptions, and tools.

Simulation Approaches in Transportation Analysis

Author : Ryuichi Kitamura
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387241094
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Book Synopsis Simulation Approaches in Transportation Analysis by : Ryuichi Kitamura

Download or read book Simulation Approaches in Transportation Analysis written by Ryuichi Kitamura and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simulation Approaches in Transportation Analysis: Recent Advances and Challenges presents the latest developments in transport simulation, including dynamic network simulation and micro-simulation of people’s movement in an urban area. It offers a collection of the major simulation models that are now in use throughout the world; it illustrates each model in detail, examines potential problems, and points to directions for future development. The reader will be able to understand the functioning, applicability, and usefulness of advanced transport simulation models. The material in this book will be of wide use to graduate students and practitioners as well as researchers in the transportation engineering and planning fields.

Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy

Author : Panos Pardalos
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030533565
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy written by Panos Pardalos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the best papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2020, held in Vilamoura, Portugal. While most blockchain conferences and forums are dedicated to business applications, product development or Initial Coin Offering (ICO) launches, this conference focused on the mathematics behind blockchain to bridge the gap between practice and theory. Blockchain Technology has been considered as the most fundamental and revolutionising invention since the Internet. Every year, thousands of blockchain projects are launched and circulated in the market, and there is a tremendous wealth of blockchain applications, from finance to healthcare, education, media, logistics and more. However, due to theoretical and technical barriers, most of these applications are impractical for use in a real-world business context. The papers in this book reveal the challenges and limitations, such as scalability, latency, privacy and security, and showcase solutions and developments to overcome them.

Big Data Applications in the Telecommunications Industry

Author : Ouyang, Ye
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522517510
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Big Data Applications in the Telecommunications Industry written by Ouyang, Ye and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing presence of smart phones and smart devices has caused significant changes to wireless networks. With the ubiquity of these technologies, there is now increasingly more available data for mobile operators to utilize. Big Data Applications in the Telecommunications Industry is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on the use of data analytics to study wireless networks and examines how these techniques can increase reliability and profitability, as well as network performance and connectivity. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant topics, such as accessibility, traffic data, and customer satisfaction, this publication is ideally designed for engineers, students, professionals, academics, and researchers seeking innovative perspectives on data science and wireless network communications.

Personal Relationships and Personal Networks

Author : Malcolm R. Parks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351554530
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Personal Relationships and Personal Networks written by Malcolm R. Parks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. Personal Relationships and Personal Networks takes this analysis a step further, focusing on research linking participants' feelings and actions within a given personal relationship to the larger social context surrounding it. Author Malcolm R. Parks expands on the idea that the initiation, development, maintenance, and dissolution of relationships are inextricably connected to each participant's social network-a perspective that allows for a better appreciation of our connection to the world, and a greater understanding our significant power as social actors. This book offers a new way to consider basic notions about how relationships form, such as how particular people meet, and how relationships are started. Among many findings, the volume demonstrates that individuals in relationships feel closer and generally more connected when they also have a greater amount of contact with the members of each other's personal networks and when they believe that network members support their relationship. Additional topics discussed include how this social context model is applicable to different types of relationships; how participants interact with network members; how social networks are involved in the deterioration of personal relationships; and what drives change in relationships. Students, researchers, and professionals in a wide variety of disciplines such as communication, psychology, sociology, anthropology, family studies, clinical psychology, public health nursing, education, and social work will find this book useful, as will anyone seeking to better understand their own personal relationships.

The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis

Author : John Scott
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1847873952
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis written by John Scott and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sparkling Handbook offers an unrivalled resource for those engaged in the cutting edge field of social network analysis. Systematically, it introduces readers to the key concepts, substantive topics, central methods and prime debates. Among the specific areas covered are: Network theory Interdisciplinary applications Online networks Corporate networks Lobbying networks Deviant networks Measuring devices Key Methodologies Software applications. The result is a peerless resource for teachers and students which offers a critical survey of the origins, basic issues and major debates. The Handbook provides a one-stop guide that will be used by readers for decades to come.

Theory of Social Choice on Networks

Author : Wynn C. Stirling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316738574
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Social Choice on Networks written by Wynn C. Stirling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical social choice theory relies heavily on the assumption that all individuals have fixed preference orderings. This highly original book presents a new theory of social preferences that explicitly accounts for important social phenomena such as coordination, compromise, negotiation and altruism. Drawing on cybernetics and network theory, it extends classical social choice theory by constructing a framework that allows for dynamic preferences that are modulated by the situation-dependent social influence that they exert on each other. In this way the book shows how members of a social network may modulate their preferences to account for social context. This important expansion of social choice theory will be of interest to readers in a wide variety of disciplines, including economists and political scientists concerned with choice theory as well as computer scientists and engineers working on network theory.

Social Networks and Travel Behaviour

Author : Matthias Kowald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317053656
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Social Networks and Travel Behaviour written by Matthias Kowald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In aiming to understand and model peoples’ out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. Firstly, leisure travel is increasing in importance and is more complex and variable than work-related travel, being less rigid in temporal and spatial patterns and more influenced by external factors such as social contacts or weather conditions. Secondly, traditional aggregated transport models do not include any information on peoples’ social interactions or their personal social networks. In contrast, the recent development and availability of disaggregated models allows more detailed modelling of elements such as individual characteristics, motivations, constraints and travel costs, as well as a consideration of influences from an actor’s social environment. People travel not only within an infrastructure but also within a social structure. These two main factors have driven transport planners to focus on peoples’ interaction and their social network. In recent years there have been a remarkable number of data collection efforts in the field, surveying information on the link between travel behaviour and social motivation. Providing an overview of selected exemplary studies, this volume addresses the overlap between transport planning and methods of social network analysis; applied methods of social network analysis and related empirical results; and current challenges and new research questions in this field.

Co-creating Videogames

Author : John Banks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849666644
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Co-creating Videogames written by John Banks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Co-creativity has become a significant cultural and economic phenomenon. Media consumers have become media producers. This book offers a rich description and analysis of the emerging participatory, co-creative relationships within the videogames industry. Banks discusses the challenges of incorporating these co-creative relationships into the development process. Drawing on a decade of research within the industry, the book gives us valuable insight into the continually changing and growing world of video games.

Events in Social Networks

Author : Christoph Stadtfeld
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3866447922
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Events in Social Networks written by Christoph Stadtfeld and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interactions between people are ubiquitous. When people make phone calls, transfer money, connect on social network sites, or visit each other, these actions can be collected as dyadic, directed, relational events. Each of those events can be understood as driven by multiple individual decisions that at least partially involve rational considerations. This book aims at developing models that allow to understand individual event decisions in the context of large social networks.

A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health

Author : Teresa L. Scheid
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107134870
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health written by Teresa L. Scheid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health presents a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health.