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The networked seceder model: Group formation in social and economic systems
The seceder model illustrates how the desire to be different than the average
can lead to formation of groups in a population. We turn the original, agent
based, seceder model into a model of network evolution. We find that the
structural characteristics our model closely matches empirical social networks.
Statistics for the dynamics of group formation are also given. Extensions of
the model to networks of companies are also discussed