Social percolation models

Sorin Solomon, Gerard Weisbuch, Lucilla De Arcangelis, Naeem Jan, Dietrich Stauffer

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Abstract

We here relate the occurrence of extreme market shares, close to either 0 or 100%, in the media industry to a percolation phenomenon across the social network of customers. We further discuss the possibility of observing self-organized criticality when customers and cinema producers adjust their preferences and the quality of the produced films according to previous experience. Comprehensive computer simulations on square lattices do indeed exhibit self-organized criticality towards the usual percolation threshold and related scaling behaviour.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)239-247
Number of pages9
JournalPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume277
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Mar 2000

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