{
  "id": "cond-mat/0510650",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2005-10-25T02:47:42.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-10-25T02:47:42.000Z",
  "title": "Complex networks generated by the Penna bit-string model: Emergence of small-world and assortative mixing",
  "authors": [
    "Chunguang Li",
    "Philip K. Maini"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. E 72, 045102, 2005",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.72.045102",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "cond-mat.other",
    "nlin.AO",
    "q-bio.OT",
    "q-bio.PE"
  ],
  "abstract": "The Penna bit-string model successfully encompasses many phenomena of population evolution, including inheritance, mutation, evolution and ageing. If we consider social interactions among individuals in the Penna model, the population will form a complex network. In this paper, we first modify the Verhulst factor to control only the birth rate, and introduce activity-based preferential reproduction of offspring in the Penna model. The social interactions among individuals are generated by both inheritance and activity-based preferential increase. Then we study the properties of the complex network generated by the modified Penna model. We find that the resulting complex network has a small-world effect and the assortative mixing property.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2005-10-25T02:47:42.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "complex networks",
      "assortative mixing",
      "penna model",
      "small-world",
      "social interactions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. E"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}