CARLETTI, TIMOTEO; RIGHI, SIMONE; FANELLI, DUCCIO - In: Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 14 (2011) 01, pp. 13-30
In this paper, we show that the small world and weak ties phenomena can spontaneously emerge in a social network of interacting agents. This dynamics is simulated in the framework of a simplified model of opinion diffusion in an evolving social network where agents are made to interact, possibly...