Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness
Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness
The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language
Machine Intelligence 15, Intelligent Agents [St. Catherine's College, Oxford, July 1995]
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks
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The emergence of order in systems with many actors or agents is an interesting problem for sociology as well as for computer science. Starting the from sociological theory of the dyadic “situation of double contingency”, our main focus is on large actor populations and their capability to produce order depending on different actors' constellations. Based on the theory for dyadic actor constellations we present our model of the actor. We do not want the actors to identify one another, so we do not need to modify this model if we scale up population size next and introduce constellations. Thereby we take regular, random and small–world constellations into account. After describing our measures of order we study emergence of order in different constellations for varying population sizes. By means of simulation experiments we show that systems with small–worlds exhibit highest order on large populations which gently decreases on increasing population sizes.