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Dynamical complexity in the perception-based network formation model
Many link formation mechanisms for the evolution of social networks have been
successful to reproduce various empirical findings in social networks. However,
they have largely ignored the fact that individuals make decisions on whether
to create links to other individuals based on cost and benefit of linking, and
the fact that individuals may use perception of the network in their decision
making. In this paper, we study the evolution of social networks in terms of
perception-based strategic link formation. Here each individual has her own
perception of the actual network, and uses it to decide whether to create a
link to another individual. An individual with the least perception accuracy
can benefit from updating her perception using that of the most accurate
individual via a new link. This benefit is compared to the cost of linking in
decision making. Once a new link is created, it affects the accuracies of other
individuals' perceptions, leading to a further evolution of the actual network.
As for initial actual networks, we consider homogeneous and heterogeneous
cases. The homogeneous initial actual network is modeled by Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi
(ER) random networks, while we take a star network for the heterogeneous case.
In any cases, individual perceptions of the actual network are modeled by ER
random networks with controllable linking probability. Then the stable link
density of the actual network is found to show discontinuous transitions or
jumps according to the cost of linking. As the number of jumps is the
consequence of the dynamical complexity, we discuss the effect of initial
conditions on the number of jumps to find that the dynamical complexity
strongly depends on how much individuals initially overestimate or
underestimate the link density of the actual network. For the heterogeneous
case, the role of the highly connected individual as an information spreader is
discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Coevolution of a network and perception
How does an individual's cognition change a system which is a collective
behavior of individuals? Or, how does a system affect an individual's
cognition? To examine the interplay between a system and individuals, we study
a cognition-based network formation. When a network is not fully observable,
individuals' perception of a network plays an important role in decision
making. Assuming that a communication link is costly, and more accurate
perception yields higher network utility, an agent decides whether to form a
link in order to get better information or not. Changes in a network with newly
added links affect individuals' perception accuracy, which may cause further
changes in a network. We characterize the early stage of network dynamics and
information dispersion. Network structures in a steady state are also examined.
Additionally, we discuss local interactions and a link concentration in a
frequently changing network.Comment: 32 pages, 8 figure
Self-optimized Coverage Coordination in Femtocell Networks
This paper proposes a self-optimized coverage coordination scheme for
two-tier femtocell networks, in which a femtocell base station adjusts the
transmit power based on the statistics of the signal and the interference power
that is measured at a femtocell downlink. Furthermore, an analytic expression
is derived for the coverage leakage probability that a femtocell coverage area
leaks into an outdoor macrocell. The coverage analysis is verified by
simulation, which shows that the proposed scheme provides sufficient indoor
femtocell coverage and that the femtocell coverage does not leak into an
outdoor macrocell.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
The effect of spatially correlated noise on coherence resonance in a network of excitable cells
We study the effect of spatially correlated noise on coherence resonance (CR)
in a Watts-Strogatz small-world network of Fitz Hugh-Nagumo neurons, where the
noise correlation decays exponentially with distance between neurons. It is
found that CR is considerably improved just by a small fraction of long-range
connections for an intermediate coupling strength. For other coupling
strengths, an abrupt change in CR occurs following the drastic fracture of the
clustered structures in the network. Our study shows that spatially correlated
noise plays a significant role in the phenomenon of CR through enforcing the
clustering of the network.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figur
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Re-presenting a Story by Emotional Factors using Sentiment Analysis Method
Remembering events is affected by personal emotional status. We examined the psychological status, personalfactors, and social factor of undergraduate students (N=64) and got summaries of a story, Chronicle of a Death Foretold fromthem. As transfer learning, we collected 38,265 movie review data to train a sentimental analysis model based on convolutionalneural network, using the model to score each summary. The results of CES-D and PANAS show the relationship betweenemotion and memory retrieval; depressed people have shown a tendency of representing a story more negatively, and seemedless expressive. People with full of emotion have retrieved their memory more expressively, using more negative words. Thecontributions of this study can be summarized as follows: First, we lighten the relationship between emotion and its effects onstoring or retrieving memories. Second, we suggest objective methods to evaluate the intensity of emotion in words, using asentimental analysis model
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Network Analysis of Charactersâ Relationship in âChronicle of Death foretoldâusing Graph Theory
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in network analysis research across the social sciencesand computer science. As it is an idea that can be applied in many fields, this study, in particular, its influence in the literature.We present a method for extracting social networks from literature. This study focuses on the relation between novel itself,narration in fiction and was carried out experiments with 89 undergraduate students. They were instructed to write down theirremembered memory of the novel after reading the novel âChronicle of a death foretold.â We extract features from the socialnetworks of characters in studentsâ recall story and examine their differentiation with one another, as well as novelâs setting.This study compares graph theoryâbased cohesion measures charactersâ relationship in novel and studentsâ story. Our resultssuggest an alternative explanation for difference in social networks
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