Human sexual contact network as a bipartite graph

Güler Ergün

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 308, issue 1, 483-488

Abstract: A simple model to encapsulate the essential growth properties of the web of human sexual contacts is presented. In the model only heterosexual connection is considered and represented by a random growing bipartite graph where both male–female contact networks grow simultaneously. The time evolution of the model is analysed by a rate equation approach leading to confirm that male and female sexual contact distributions decay as power laws with exponents depending on influx and charisma of the sexes.

Keywords: Random growing network; Bipartite graph (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)00628-3

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