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标题：Communication Between Process and Structure: Modelling and Simulating Message Reference Networks with COM/TE
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作者：Thomas Malsch ; Christoph Schlieder ; Peter Kiefer 等
期刊名称：Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
印刷版ISSN：1460-7425
出版年度：2007
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：1-20
出版社：University of Surrey, Department of Sociology
摘要：Focusing on observable message signs and referencing structures, communication processes can be described and analysed as message reference networks which are characterized by dynamic pattern evolution. Computational simulation provides a way of obtaining insights into the factors driving such processes. Our paper describes a theoretical framework for communication-oriented modelling — the COM approach — that is centred around the notion of social visibility as a reputation mechanism. The approach contrasts with agent-based social networks on the one hand, and with bibliometric document networks on the other. In introducing our simulation environment COM/TE, typical properties of message reference networks are discussed in terms of a case study which deals with the impact of different media and styles of communication on emergent patterns of social visibility.
关键词：Communication; Communication-Oriented Modelling; Message Sign; Dynamic Networks; Bottom-up Approach; Temporality; Social Visibility; Reputation; Socionics