Efficiency of pair formation in a model society
Abstract
In a recent paper a set of differential equations was proposed to describe a social process, where pairs of partners emerge in a community. The choice was performed on a basis of attractive resources and of random initial preferences. An efficiency of the process, defined as the probability of finding a partner, was found to depend on the community size. Here we demonstrate, that if the resources are not relevant, the efficiency is equal to unity; everybody finds a partner. With this new formulation, about 80 percent of community members enter to dyads; the remaining 20 percent form triads.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0605070,
title = {Efficiency of pair formation in a model society},
author = {Mateusz Wasko and Krzysztof Kulakowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0605070},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures. Presented at 2nd Polish Symposium on Econo- and Sociophysics, Cracow, 21-22 April 2006. New comment: to be published in Acta Phys. Pol. B