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Friends Forever: Social Relationships with a Fuzzy Agent-Based Model

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Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2008)

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Sociological research shows that friendship and partner choice tend to reveal a bias toward social similarity. These relations are ruled by the so called “proximity principle” which states that the more similar two individuals are, the more likely they will become friends. However, proximity, similarity or friendship are concepts with blurred edges and grades of membership (acquaintances, friends, couples). Therefore, in order to model the friendship dynamics we work on an Agent-Based Model that already manages the social relationships, together with demographics and evolutionary crossover. To introduce these theoretical concepts we decided to fuzzify the system, explaining the process in detail. Thus, we end up with fuzzy sets and operations, a fuzzy friendship relationship, and a logistic function for its evolution.

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  1. GRASIA: Grupo de Agentes Software, Ingenieria y Aplicaciones, Departamento de Ingenieria del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain

    Samer Hassan & Juan Pavon

  2. CRESS: Centre for Research in Social Simulation, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom

    Samer Hassan & Mauricio Salgado

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  2. Center of Excellence for Quantifiable Quality of Service, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

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  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton,, T6G 2V4, Alberta, Canada

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Hassan, S., Salgado, M., Pavon, J. (2008). Friends Forever: Social Relationships with a Fuzzy Agent-Based Model. In: Corchado, E., Abraham, A., Pedrycz, W. (eds) Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems. HAIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5271. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87656-4_65

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