Size matters: Variation in personal network size, personality and effect on information transmission

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 188-193

  Lu, Yu En ^a   Roberts, Sam ^b   Lio, Pietro ^a   Dunbar, Robin ^b   Crowcroft, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLETE NETWORKS; CONVERGENCE RATES; GENERATIVE MODEL; IN-NETWORK; INFORMATION FLOWS; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; LARGE NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PERSONAL NETWORKS; PERSONALITY TRAITS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL SCIENCE; SIMULATION MODELLING; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; FLOW SIMULATION; SIMULATORS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70849105967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.179     Document Type: Conference Paper

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