On a Combinatorial Aspect of Fashion

• Authors: M. Krawczyk , K. Kułakowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Simulations are performed according to the Axelrod model of culture dissemination, with modified mechanism of repulsion. Previously, repulsion was considered by Radillo-Diaz et al. as dependent on a predefined threshold. Here the probabilities of attraction and repulsion are calculated from the number of cells in the same states. We also investigate the influence of some homogeneity, introduced to the initial state. As the result of the probabilistic definition of repulsion, the ordered state vanishes. A small cluster of a few percent of population is retained only if in the initial state a set of agents is prepared in the same state. We conclude that the modelled imitation is successful only with respect to agents, and not only their features.

Keywords

EN

89.65.-s; 07.05.Tp

Discipline

• 89.65.-s: Social and economic systems
• 07.05.Tp: Computer modeling and simulation

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 123
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 560-563

Dates

published

2013-03

Contributors

author

M. Krawczyk

• Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, PL-30-059 Kraków, Poland

author

K. Kułakowski

• Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, PL-30-059 Kraków, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.123.560