TY - GEN
T1 - Friends forever
T2 - 3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, HAIS 2008
AU - Hassan, Samer
AU - Salgado, Mauricio
AU - Pavon, Juan
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Sociological research shows that friendship and partner choice tend to reveal a bias toward social similarity. These relations are ruled by the so called "proximity principle" which states that the more similar two individuals are, the more likely they will become friends. However, proximity, similarity or friendship are concepts with blurred edges and grades of membership (acquaintances, friends, couples). Therefore, in order to model the friendship dynamics we work on an Agent-Based Model that already manages the social relationships, together with demographics and evolutionary crossover. To introduce these theoretical concepts we decided to fuzzify the system, explaining the process in detail. Thus, we end up with fuzzy sets and operations, a fuzzy friendship relationship, and a logistic function for its evolution.
AB - Sociological research shows that friendship and partner choice tend to reveal a bias toward social similarity. These relations are ruled by the so called "proximity principle" which states that the more similar two individuals are, the more likely they will become friends. However, proximity, similarity or friendship are concepts with blurred edges and grades of membership (acquaintances, friends, couples). Therefore, in order to model the friendship dynamics we work on an Agent-Based Model that already manages the social relationships, together with demographics and evolutionary crossover. To introduce these theoretical concepts we decided to fuzzify the system, explaining the process in detail. Thus, we end up with fuzzy sets and operations, a fuzzy friendship relationship, and a logistic function for its evolution.
KW - Agent-based modelling
KW - Friendship
KW - Fuzzy agent
KW - Fuzzy logic
KW - Social simulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70350549866&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-87656-4_65
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-87656-4_65
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70350549866
SN - 3540876553
SN - 9783540876557
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 523
EP - 532
BT - Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems - Third International Workshop, HAIS 2008, Proceedings
Y2 - 24 September 2008 through 26 September 2008
ER -