Ben-Naim, E.; Vazquez, F.; Redner, S. - In: The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and … 49 (2006) 4, pp. 531-538
We model the dynamics of social structure by a simple interacting particle system. The social standing of an individual agent is represented by an integer-valued fitness that changes via two offsetting processes. When two agents interact one advances: the fitter with probability p and the less...