Simulating large social networks in agent-based models: A social circle model

Emergence: Complexity and Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 78-94

  Hamill, Lynne ^a   Gilbert, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

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