Agent Rationality Behind Network Formation |
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Authors: | Marek Antosiewicz Bogumi? Kamiński |
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Institution: | 1. Warsaw School of Economics, al. Niepodleg?o?ci, 162, Warszawa 02-554, Polandmarekantosiewicz@gmail.com;3. Warsaw School of Economics, al. Niepodleg?o?ci, 162, Warszawa 02-554, Poland |
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Abstract: | We search for agent behavior rules which lead to the emergence of social networks that exhibit empirically observed phenomena: small-world property, scale-free degree distribution and stability in time. We assume that agents form and sever links using a cost-benefit analysis. Agents receive benefit from own links and from links that their friends form. On the other hand, link formation, deletion and keeping is costly. We find that a simple model structure which relies only on convex cost of link upkeep leads to stable networks which exhibit the small-world property. |
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Keywords: | networks network formation search small world |
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