Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Modeling the behaviour of diabetes patients

[Gulyas Laszlo]

The most famous algorithm to create scale-free networks (rather: networks
with power law degree distribution) is the Preferential Attachment model
of Albert and Barabasi. Try Google, you'll be successful.

Best,

-- g

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Joshua O'Madadhain
wrote:

> On 16 Sep 2005, at 9:14, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > Pieter Steenekamp wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >> I want to use a scale free network to model the interaction
> >> between these people.
> >>
> >
> > I thought of scale free as a descriptive property of the network
> > after it forms, rather than a constructive term.  How will you
> > create it? Will people chooose to interact by some feature and then
> > the status gets broadcasted, so that some people end up with many
> > more contacts than others?
>
> It is a descriptive property, but I'm fairly sure that there are
> algorithms from the field of social network analysis that will
> generate a (random) scale-free network; there certainly are such
> algorithms for power-law and small-world networks.  Try a search on
> "scale-free network algorithm"; it has a few results that look
> promising.
>
> Joshua O'Madadhain
>
> address@hidden Per Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden
> Joshua O'Madadhain: Information Scientist, Musician, and Philosopher-
> At-Tall
>    It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill
> Watterson
>    My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any
> organization.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Modelling mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://www.swarm.org/mailman/listinfo/modelling
>

-- 
--
Laszlo Gulyas                           address@hidden
AI Laboratory                           http://www.sztaki.hu/~gulyas/
Computer and Automation Research Inst.  H-1111, Budapest, Kende u. 13-17.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences           * 36 30 638 3218