It is a fundamental challenge to understand how the function of a network is related to its
structural organization. Adaptive dynamical networks represent a broad class of systems that …

This article looks at 20 years of applications of agent‐based models (ABMs) in sociology
and, in particular, their explanatory achievements and methodological insights. These …

We provide an overview and synthesis of the literatures analyzing games in which players
are connected via a network structure. We discuss, in particular, the impact of the structure of …

Brian Skyrms' study of ideas of cooperation and collective action explores the implications of
a prototypical story found in Rousseau's A Discourse on Inequality. It is therein that …

This 2007 book provides a systematic and self-contained account of the fast-develo**
theory of complex social networks. Social networks are central to the understanding of most …

We consider a dynamic social network model in which agents play repeated games in
pairings determined by a stochastically evolving social network. Individual agents begin to …

Empirical work shows that a large majority of individuals get most of their information from a
very small subset of the group, viz., the influencers; moreover, there exist only minor …

Network models, stress testing methods and early warning systems are attracting growing
interest both among scholars and practitioners. In this short paper, we illustrate some of the …

Social Computing and online communities have ushered in a new era of the web, where
information and communication technologies are facilitating organized human endeavor in …

Mobile cloud computing is an emerging technology to improve the quality of mobile services.
In this paper, we consider the resource (ie, radio and computing resources) sharing problem …