Virtual Kinship Networks: Exploring Social Networks from an Agent-Based Model

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dc.contributor.author Allison, James R.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-10-17T13:57:30Z
dc.date.available 2023-10-17T13:57:30Z
dc.date.issued 2023-10-31
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10900/146418
dc.identifier.uri http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-1464182 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-87759
dc.description Ein korrigierter Nachdruck kann unter https://hdl.handle.net/10900/153525 aufgerufen werden.
dc.description.abstract This paper analyzes the structure of virtual kinship networks formed by an agent-based model that was originally designed to explore the relationships among kin networks, residence rules, settlement size, and the movement of exchange goods.Following simple rules, agents in the model are born, die, find mates, establish post-marital residence. Agents then exchange goods (which are conceptualized as pottery vessels) among close kin dispersed through a linear system of villages. Each run of the model produces a network that unites most agents, but each agent also has a personal network of close kin. Previous analysis of model output has focused on variation in the number of virtual pottery vessels obtained by agents, and on data averaged over large numbers of model runs, with only minimal analysis of the networks produced. But variation in network structure must underlie the variation in exchange success seen in the model runs. This paper focuses on the virtual networks produced by the model, including examining variation in measures of centrality and degree distribution, as well as variation in path length from one end of the system to the other. The data exploration reported here indicates that centrality is important, but centrality alone is not a good predictor of success in exchange. Agents who obtain large numbers of vessels typically are connected to producers directly or through one or two intermediate links, and also tend to have relatively high centrality in the network. en
dc.language.iso en de_DE
dc.publisher Tübingen University Press de_DE
dc.subject.classification Archäologie , Soziales Netzwerk de_DE
dc.subject.ddc 930 de_DE
dc.subject.other agentenbasierte Modellierung de_DE
dc.subject.other exchange en
dc.subject.other social networks en
dc.subject.other agent-based modeling en
dc.title Virtual Kinship Networks: Exploring Social Networks from an Agent-Based Model en
dc.type ConferencePaper de_DE
utue.publikation.fachbereich Archäologie de_DE
utue.publikation.fakultaet 5 Philosophische Fakultät de_DE
utue.publikation.source Human History and Digital Future : Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology de_DE
utue.publikation.noppn yes de_DE

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