Modeling and simulation of e-mail social networks: A new stochastic agent-based approach

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2792-2800

  Menges, Fabian ^a   Mishra, Bud ^a   Narzisi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED APPROACHES; E-MAIL NETWORKS; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; EVENT-BASED; INTER-NODE CONNECTIONS; MODELING AND SIMULATIONS; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENTS; REAL-WORLD; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; UNIQUE FEATURES;

AGENTS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; RANDOM PROCESSES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 60749086500     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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