Building social networks out of cognitive blocks: factors of interest in agent-based socio-cognitive simulations

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 115-149

  Zhao, Changkun ^a   Kaulakis, Ryan ^a   Morgan, Jonathan H ^b   Hiam, Jeremiah W ^a   Ritter, Frank E ^a   Sanford, Joesph ^c   Morgan, Geoffrey P ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

^d Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

ACT R; Cognitive simulation; Dunbar s number; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACT-R; COGNITIVE SIMULATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; LOGISTIC GROWTH MODEL; MEMORY CONSTRAINTS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84939971724     PISSN: 1381298X     EISSN: 15729346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10588-014-9179-0     Document Type: Article

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