The influence of social structure on the propagation of social information in artificial primate groups: A graph-based simulation approach

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-86

  Voelkl, Bernhard ^a   Noë, Ronald ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Information transmission; Social network; Social system; Weighted graph

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INFORMATION; LEARNING; PRIMATE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; GROUP PROCESSES; GROUP STRUCTURE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRIMATES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

PRIMATES;

EID: 41949142941     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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