Entropy | |
The Dynamics of Concepts in a Homogeneous Community | |
Eugene Khmelnitsky1  | |
[1] Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel | |
关键词: social networks; communities; information diffusion; concepts’ dynamics; | |
DOI : 10.3390/e15062012 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
The paper addresses informational interactions in a community and considers the dynamics of concepts that represent distribution of knowledge among the individuals. The evolution of a set of concepts maintained by a community is derived by the use of the concepts’ significance in the communication between “cognoscenti” and “dilettanti” and of birth-death processes. The dynamics of concepts depend on the allocation of communication resources and can be governed by an informational principle that requires minimum self-information of the set of concepts over a time horizon. With respect to that principle, the introduction of a new concept into a community’s disposal is shown to lead to a steady-state self-information, which is smaller than that before the introduction of the new concept.
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CC BY
© 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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