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A key challenge in agent-based mobility simulations is the synthesis of individual agent socioeconomic profiles. Such profiles include locations of agent activities, which dictate the quality of the simulated travel patterns. These…

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We present a novel model to simulate real social networks of complex interactions, based in a granular system of colliding particles (agents). The network is build by keeping track of the collisions and evolves in time with correlations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 M. C. Gonzalez , P. G. Lind , H. J. Herrmann

Many analyses of resource-allocation problems employ simplistic models of the population. Using the example of a resource-allocation problem of Marecek et al. [arXiv:1406.7639], we introduce rather a general behavioural model, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Jonathan Epperlein , Jakub Marecek

A user can be represented as what he/she does along the history. A common way to deal with the user modeling problem is to manually extract all kinds of aggregated features over the heterogeneous behaviors, which may fail to fully represent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Chang Zhou , Jinze Bai , Junshuai Song , Xiaofei Liu , Zhengchao Zhao , Xiusi Chen , Jun Gao

Network modeling plays a critical role in identifying statistical regularities and structural principles common to many systems. The large majority of recent modeling approaches are connectivity driven. The structural patterns of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-27 Nicola Perra , Bruno Gonçalves , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

We focus on the problem of analyzing multiagent interactions in traffic domains. Understanding the space of behavior of real-world traffic may offer significant advantages for algorithmic design, data-driven methodologies, and benchmarking.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Christoforos Mavrogiannis , Jonathan DeCastro , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

With recent advancements in large language models, web agents have been greatly improved. However, dealing with complex and dynamic web environments requires more advanced planning and search abilities. Previous studies usually adopt a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhisong Zhang , Tianqing Fang , Kaixin Ma , Wenhao Yu , Hongming Zhang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

Blog management is central to the digitalization of work. However, existing theories tend to focus on environmental influence rather than managerial control of a blogs attractiveness at a microlevel. This study provides an agentive account…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Carlos Denner dos Santos , Isadora Castro , George Kuk , Silvia Onoyama , Marina Moreira

In a social group its members are caled here agents. Any two agents from the group may interact. The interaction consists of the exchange of information and it costs some energy. There exist subgroups of interacting agents which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-19 Ondrej Hudak , Jana Tothova

People often learn from other's actions when they make decisions while doing online shopping. This kind of observational learning may lead to information cascades, which means agents might ignore their own signals and follow the 'trend'…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Yuming Han

In social systems, people communicate with each other and form groups based on their interests. The pattern of interactions, the network, and the ideas that flow on the network naturally evolve together. Researchers use simple models to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-18 Atieh Mirshahvalad , Martin Rosvall

In this paper, we model a decision-making process involving a set of interacting agents. We use Markovian opinion dynamics, where each agent switches between decisions according to a continuous time Markov chain. Existing opinion dynamics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Carl-Johan Heiker , Paolo Falcone

Social movements, neurons in the brain or even industrial suppliers are best described by agents evolving on networks with basic interaction rules. In these real systems, the connectivity between agents corresponds to the a critical state…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Curty

It is well understood that the structure of a social network is critical to whether or not agents can aggregate information correctly. In this paper, we study social networks that support information aggregation when rational agents act…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-11 Itai Arieli , Fedor Sandomirskiy , Rann Smorodinsky

PageRank is arguably the most popular ranking algorithm which is being applied in real systems ranging from information to biological and infrastructure networks. Despite its outstanding popularity and broad use in different areas of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-09 Manuel Sebastian Mariani , Matus Medo , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Exploring the collective behavior of interacting entities is of great interest and importance. Rather than focusing on static and uniform connections, we examine the co-evolution of diverse mobile agents experiencing varying interactions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-16 Guram Mikaberidze , Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Alan Hastings , Raissa M. DSouza

We study the interaction between strategy, heterogeneity and growth in a two-agent model of capital accumulation. Preferences are represented by recursive utility functions with decreasing marginal impatience. The stationary equilibria of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Luis Alcala , Fernando Tohme , Carlos Dabus

Despite rapid progress in autonomous web agents, human involvement remains essential for shaping preferences and correcting agent behavior as tasks unfold. However, current agentic systems lack a principled understanding of when and why…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Faria Huq , Zora Zhiruo Wang , Zhanqiu Guo , Venu Arvind Arangarajan , Tianyue Ou , Frank Xu , Shuyan Zhou , Graham Neubig , Jeffrey P. Bigham

An agent-based model is proposed for analyzing the dynamics that arise from interactions within social networks, analyzing the individual behavior of each profile. Said model considers a simplified construction of a social network while…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Juan Camilo Ramírez de los Rios , Paula Alejandra Escudero Marín , María Camila Vásquez-Correa

We propose a dynamical system that captures changes to the network centrality of nodes as external interest in those nodes vary. We derive this system by adding time-dependent teleportation to the PageRank score. The result is not a single…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-11-20 David F. Gleich , Ryan A. Rossi