Robustness of cultural communities in an open-ended Axelrod's model

Hernández, A.R. ; Gracia-Lázaro, C. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Brigatti, E. ; Moreno, Y. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: We consider an open-ended set of cultural features in the Axelrod model of cultural dissemination. By replacing the features in which a high degree of consensus is achieved by new ones, we address here an essential ingredient of societies: the evolution of topics as a result of social dynamics and debate. Our results show that, once cultural clusters have been formed, the introduction of new topics into the social debate has little effect on them, but it does have a significant influence on the cultural overlap. Along with the Monte Carlo simulations, we derive and numerically solve an equation for the stationary cultural overlap based on a mean-field approach which reproduces the qualitative behavior of the model.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2018.06.023

Año: 2018

Publicado en: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 509 (2018), 492-500
ISSN: 0378-4371

Factor impacto JCR: 2.5 (2018)

Categ. JCR: PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY rank: 26 / 81 = 0.321 (2018) - Q2 - T1

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.699 - Statistics and Probability (Q2) - Condensed Matter Physics (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/662725/EU/Bridging the gap: from Individual Behaviour to the Socio-tEchnical MaN/IBSEN
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FIS2017-87519-P

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Física Teórica (Dpto. Física Teórica)