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SUMMARY:Properties of Networks of Interacting Stochastic Agents
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Nima Dehmamy\n\nPart of the Departmental Seminars.\n\
	nDissertation Committee:  \n\nEugene Stanley\, Irena Vodenska\, Shlomo Havl
	in\, Pankaj Mehta\, and Kevin Black. \n\nabstract:\n\nNetworks generally re
	present a type of interaction between entities. Sometimes these interaction
	s encode little about the similarities of agents and it is more the fame th
	at determines links\, as is the case in Twitter. But in the formation of ma
	ny other networks similarity is crucial. The similarities may include overl
	ap of interests\, field of study\, or geographical location. Each of these 
	cases may be thought of as dimensions of a parameter space. Similarity then
	 becomes locality and local interactions inside this parameter space. We de
	vise a general model for formation of such locality-based networks using fi
	eld theory and show that the locality puts clear constraints on the structu
	re of the network. The field theory machinery allows us find analytic relat
	ions for network characteristics. We show that some very generic cases of n
	etworks produced from our model can reproduce features of many similarity-b
	ased real-world networks and contrast them with non-local networks. \n\n![N
	ima] (/resources/event-image/1445/b215a90_small)
LOCATION:SCI 328\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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