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Begin micro-behaviour
Begin description:
Create a social network with bi-directional links between all individuals where the number of acquaintances is distributed according to a power law.
End description
Power law social network
Begin NetLogo code:
substitute-text-area-for community-expression all-individuals substitute-text-area-for power-expression 1.42 substitute-text-area-for maximum-as-a-fraction .33 let entire-community community-expression let population count entire-community let number-of-links sort-by > power-law-list population power-expression round (population * maximum-as-a-fraction) ; any fixed order for the source end of links let sources sort entire-community ; destination is shuffled so the most connected ; don't connect to themselves disproportionately let destinations shuffle sources let source-index 0 let destination-index 0 let source nobody while [source-index < population - 1] [set source item source-index sources let source-links-required item source-index number-of-links - [count my-links] of source ; next search for the other end of the link ; that still requires some links while [source-links-required > 0 and destination-index < population] [let destination-links-required 0 let destination nobody while [(destination-links-required = 0 or source = destination) and destination-index < population] [set destination item destination-index destinations set destination-links-required item (position destination sources) number-of-links - [count my-links] of destination set destination-index destination-index + 1] if destination != nobody and source != destination [ask source [create-link-with destination] set source-links-required source-links-required - 1]] ; ready for the next source set source-index source-index + 1 set destination-index 0 set destinations shuffle destinations]
End NetLogo code
You can edit the text areas to change the average number of acquaintances per person or to change the set of individuals that are to be linked together.
The Constant social network behaviour assigns the same number of acquaintances to each individual.
It computes a power law distribution of links. First it computes the random distribution of number of links for each member of the population. It then creates links between the agents according to the distribution. This relies upon power-law-list which computes a random list of number of links with the desired distribution.
If you need a particular average number of links per individual then you should experiment with the power parameter to power-law-list. For example in NetLogo run show mean power-law-list 10000 POWER round MAXIMUM-VALUE where POWER and MAXIMUM-VALUE are given different values.For example a power of 1.42 and maximum value of 33 yields very close to an average value of 4.
Power law social network was completely re-implemented by Ken Kahn on 13 March 2012.
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