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Many real-world systems can be modeled as interconnected multilayer networks, namely a set of networks interacting with each other. Here we present a perturbative approach to study the properties of a general class of interconnected…

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We propose a method to procedurally generate a familiar yet complex human artifact: the city. We are not trying to reproduce existing cities, but to generate artificial cities that are convincing and plausible by capturing developmental…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Thomas Lechner , Ben Watson , Uri Wilensky , Martin Felsen

When modeling a social dynamics with an agent-oriented approach, researchers have to describe the structure of interactions within the population. Given the intractability of extensive network collecting, they rely on random network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Samuel Thiriot

Alignment is a social phenomenon wherein individuals share a common goal or perspective. Mirroring, or mimicking the behaviors and opinions of another individual, is one mechanism by which individuals can become aligned. Large scale…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Harvey McGuinness , Tianyu Wang , Carey E. Priebe , Hayden Helm

This paper presents the foundational ideas for a new way of modeling social aggregation. Traditional approaches have been using network theory, and the theory of random networks. Under that paradigm, every social agent is represented by a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mirco A. Mannucci , Lisa Sparks , Daniele C. Struppa

The article is devoted to the issues of using discrete simulation models for modeling some basic technological processes. In the scientific work, models in the form of multi-agent systems have been investigated, which allow us to consider a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Sergey Petrovich Bobkov , Irina Aleksandrovna Astrakhantseva

Immersive rooms are increasingly popular augmented reality systems that support multi-agent interactions within a virtual world. However, despite extensive content creation and technological developments, insights about perceptually-driven…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jerry M. Huang , Stefan T. Radev

Quantitative analysis of empirical data from online social networks reveals group dynamics in which emotions are involved (\v{S}uvakov et al). Full understanding of the underlying mechanisms, however, remains a challenging task. Using…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-05-30 Milovan Šuvakov , David Garcia , Frank Schweitzer , Bosiljka Tadić

The aim our work is to create virtual humans as intelligent entities, which includes approximate the maximum as possible the virtual agent animation to the natural human behavior. In order to accomplish this task, our agent must be capable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-04-27 F. Cherif , R. Chighoub

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled multi-agent systems that simulate real-world interactions with near-human reasoning. While previous studies have extensively examined biases related to protected attributes such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Min Choi , Keonwoo Kim , Sungwon Chae , Sangyeob Baek

Agent-based social simulation provides a valuable methodology for predicting social information diffusion, yet existing approaches face two primary limitations. Traditional agent models often rely on rigid behavioral rules and lack semantic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xinyi Li , Zhiqiang Guo , Qinglang Guo , Hao Jin , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang

The question that how cultural variation emerges has drawn lots of interest in sociological inquiry. Sociologists predominantly study such variation through the lens of social contagion, which mostly attributes cultural variation to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Heng-Chien Liou , Hsuan-Wei Lee

The significance of network structures in promoting group cooperation within social dilemmas has been widely recognized. Prior studies attribute this facilitation to the assortment of strategies driven by spatial interactions. Although…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tianyu Ren , Xiao-Jun Zeng

Far beyond its relevance for commercial and political marketings, opinion formation and decision making processes are central for representative democracy, government functioning, and state organization. In the present report, a stochastic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-11 Hugo P. Maia , Silvio C. Ferreira , Marcelo L. Martins

We construct a model of strategic imitation in an arbitrary network of players who interact through an additive game. Assuming a discrete time update, we show a condition under which the resulting difference equations converge to consensus.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Christopher Griffin , Sarah Rajtmajer , Anna Squicciarini , Andrew Belmonte

Understanding the emergence of prosocial behaviours (e.g., cooperation and trust) among self-interested agents is an important problem in many disciplines. Network structure and institutional incentives (e.g., punishing antisocial agents)…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-29 Ik Soo Lim , Valerio Capraro

Bias exists in how we pick leaders, who we perceive as being influential, and who we interact with, not only in society, but in organizational contexts. Drawing from leadership emergence and social influence theories, we investigate…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Andria L. Smith , Simon Heuschkel , Ksenia Keplinger , Charley M. Wu

In the real world, agents or entities are in a continuous state of interactions. These inter- actions lead to various types of complexity dynamics. One key difficulty in the study of complex agent interactions is the difficulty of modeling…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Aisha D. Farooqui , Muaz A. Niazi

Dynamic multilayer networks frequently represent the structure of multiple co-evolving relations; however, statistical models are not well-developed for this prevalent network type. Here, we propose a new latent space model for dynamic…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-25 Joshua Daniel Loyal , Yuguo Chen