Friends Forever: Social Relationships with a Fuzzy Agent-Based Model
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Hassan, Samer, Salgado, Mauricio and Pavon, Juan (2008) Friends Forever: Social Relationships with a Fuzzy Agent-Based Model In: Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, pp. 523-532.
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Abstract
Sociological research shows that friendship and partner choice tend to reveal a bias toward social similarity. These relations are ruled by the so called “proximity principle” which states that the more similar two individuals are, the more likely they will become friends. However, proximity, similarity or friend- ship are concepts with blurred edges and grades of membership (acquaintances, friends, couples). Therefore, in order to model the friendship dynamics we work on an Agent-Based Model that already manages the social relationships, together with demographics and evolutionary crossover. To introduce these theoretical concepts we decided to fuzzify the system, explaining the process in detail. Thus, we end up with fuzzy sets and operations, a fuzzy friendship relationship, and a logistic function for its evolution.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Published in: Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. p523-532, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg. Copyright: The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences > Sociology > Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS) |
| ID Code: | 1594 |
| Deposited By: | Mr Adam Field |
| Deposited On: | 27 May 2010 15:42 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2012 12:42 |
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