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Title:	Model reproduces individual, group and collective dynamics of human contact networks
Author:	Starnini, Michele; Baronchelli, Andrea; Pastor Satorras, Romualdo
Other authors:	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. SIMCON - Grup de Recerca de Simulació per Ordinador en Matèria Condensada
Abstract:	Empirical data on the dynamics of human face-to-face interactions across a variety of social venues have recently revealed a number of context-independent structural and temporal properties of human contact networks. This universality suggests that some basic mechanisms may be responsible for the unfolding of human interactions in the physical space. Here we discuss a simple model that reproduces the empirical distributions for the individual, group and collective dynamics of face-to-face contact networks. The model describes agents that move randomly in a two-dimensional space and tend to stop when meeting ‘attractive’ peers, and reproduces accurately the empirical distributions.
Subject(s):	-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física -Modeling -Human contact networks -Face-to-face interactions -Time-varying social networks -Modeling -Modelatge
Rights:	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Document type:	Article - Submitted version Article
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