FLOW OF EMOTIONAL MESSAGES IN ARTIFICIAL SOCIAL NETWORKS

Anna Chmiel () and Janusz A. Hołyst ()
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Anna Chmiel: Faculty of Physics, Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, PL-00-662 Warsaw, Poland
Janusz A. Hołyst: Faculty of Physics, Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, PL-00-662 Warsaw, Poland

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2010, vol. 21, issue 05, 593-602

Abstract: Models of message flows in an artificial group of users communicating via the Internet are introduced and investigated using numerical simulations. We assumed that messages possess an emotional character with a positive valence and that the willingness to send the next affective message to a given person increases with the number of messages received from this person. As a result, the weights of links between group members evolve over time. Memory effects are introduced, taking into account that the preferential selection of message receivers depends on the communication intensity during the recent period only. We also model the phenomenon of secondary social sharing when the reception of an emotional e-mail triggers the distribution of several emotional e-mails to other people.

Keywords: Weighted networks; emotions; sociophysics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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