Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Modeling the behaviour of diabetes patients

[Joshua O'Madadhain]

On 16 Sep 2005, at 9:14, Paul Johnson wrote:

> Pieter Steenekamp wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I want to use a scale free network to model the interaction  
> > between these people.
>
> I thought of scale free as a descriptive property of the network  
> after it forms, rather than a constructive term.  How will you  
> create it? Will people chooose to interact by some feature and then  
> the status gets broadcasted, so that some people end up with many  
> more contacts than others?

It is a descriptive property, but I'm fairly sure that there are  
algorithms from the field of social network analysis that will  
generate a (random) scale-free network; there certainly are such  
algorithms for power-law and small-world networks.  Try a search on  
"scale-free network algorithm"; it has a few results that look  
promising.

Joshua O'Madadhain

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